Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1996 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1996 4:00 PM
Description
The purpose of this paper is to propose a realistic enterprise framework that addresses how America’s space program resources can best serve its free enterprise system as it expands above and beyond Earth orbit.
Recently, there have been efforts to determine how to use a Space Shuttle to return an American to the Moon at some cost goal. This is a good thing to do for planning the creation of a space infrastructure on the Moon. However, given the tremendous economic potential of human interest in space -is this the best thing America could be doing now with one of its Space Shuttles?
Paper Session III-A - Using the Space Shuttle Columbia Begin Bringing the Moon to America
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
The purpose of this paper is to propose a realistic enterprise framework that addresses how America’s space program resources can best serve its free enterprise system as it expands above and beyond Earth orbit.
Recently, there have been efforts to determine how to use a Space Shuttle to return an American to the Moon at some cost goal. This is a good thing to do for planning the creation of a space infrastructure on the Moon. However, given the tremendous economic potential of human interest in space -is this the best thing America could be doing now with one of its Space Shuttles?
Comments
Current and Future Launch Vehicles and Facilities
Session Chairman: Erik C. Anderson, USAF, Chief Space Launch Division, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Acquisition
Session Organizer: Gil Gilbert