The new national space policy released last month generated a considerable response, but not necessarily a lot of informed insight. Dwayne Day thoroughly studies the policy, its significance, and its implications.
Theresa Hitchens analyzes the Bush Administration's new National Space Policy, finding that "while [it] doesn't go as far as some space hawks wanted it to in openly endorsing the strategy of fighting 'in, from and through' space, neither has it served to put a blanket – even a thin one – on those ambitions."
The US has issued a new national space policy that reflects a more aggressive and unilateral stance than the previous version, and flat-out rejects new agreements that would limit the US testing or use of military equipment in space. The new version also uses stronger language to assert that the US can defend its spacecraft, echoing an air force push for "space superiority" made in 2004.
U.S. President George W. Bush has authorized a sweeping new national space policy, green-lighting an overarching national policy that governs the conduct of America's space activities.
On the eve of a strategic space conference, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a long-delayed report on the military uses of space. The report had been held up for more than 15 months, after press reports in May 2005 generated controversy over whether the U.S. is seeking "space dominance."
Spacedebate.org -- a new effort to expand the debate on the weaponization of space through a collaborative wiki-like tool for structured debate on a topic -- launched recently. The project is modeled after Wikipedia, but instead of focusing on developing an encyclopedia it invites users to help edit and expand an 'argument tree' that reflects the various positions in the debate over U.S. military space policy. Users can browse the argument tree or an extensive database of resources, including links to relevant news articles, authoritative quotes, and a comprehensive bibliography of sources.