The pace of space exploration has long been dictated by political motivations. This book helps to explain why this is so in the post-Cold War era. Combining essays, a glossary of terms, tables and statistics, this new title from Routledge comes as a welcome addition to this increasingly popular topic.
The book:
- covers theories and concepts, as well as current issues
- gives a background to international and national space agencies
- contains essays that cover military, commercial and governmental actors in space politics.
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CONTENTS PART I: ESSAYS Politics of Space - ELIGAR SADEH National Security Space - PETER L. HAYS Developed Space Programmes - LAURENCE NARDON Moderate Space Powers - WADE L. HUNTLEY Commercial Space Actors - DAVID CHEN AND MOLLY K. MACAULEY International Organizations in Civil Space Affairs - HENRY R. HERTZFELD Non-governmental Space Organizations - JAMES A. VEDDA Public Sector Actors - ROGER B. HANDBERG PART II: A - Z GLOSSARY: Survey of major space organizations in the civil, commercial and military space sectors - CHRISTIAN SADEH PART III: FIGURES AND TABLES