The Space Policy Institute focuses its activities on policy issues related to the space efforts of the United States and cooperative and competitive interactions in space between the United States and other countries.
The Institute provides a setting in which scholars, policy analysts, practitioners, and students can work together to examine and evaluate options for the future in space.
The Institute is an affiliate of the International Space University and The Aerospace Corporation. The Space Policy Institute is directed by Dr. Scott Pace.
Recent News
»SPI Professor Emeritus John Logsdon Writes Feature Article in Quest
»SPI Director Scott Pace Gives Ohio State Universite Lecture on 'Frontiers of Innovation in Human Space Flight'
»SPI Director Scott Pace Discusses the Future of US Space Policy at CFR Live Meeting
»SPI Visiting Scholar Speaks at JAXA Washington Office
»SPI Director Scott Pace Writes Guest Blog for The Diplomat
»George Washington University Team Competes in Quarter Finals of 2013 North American Space Law Moot Court Competition
»SPI Alumna to Moderate NASA's First Spanish Language Google+ Hangout
» C-SPAN, SpacePolicyOnline, The Space Review and Aviation Week cover SPI-AIAA Event, "Columbia+10: Lessons Learned and Unlearned"
» SPI Professor Henry Hertzfeld interviewed on The Space Show
» Papers by SPI Faculty named in Science Direct's Top 25 Hottest Articles for 2012 from Advances in Space Research.
» SPI Director Scott Pace cited by Der Spiegel.
» SPI Students Discuss Space Policy.
» Space Policy Institute and Secure World Foundation Release 'A Guide to Space Law Terms'.
News
SPI Professor Emeritus John Logsdon Writes Feature Article in Quest
SPI Director Scott Pace Gives Ohio State Universite Lecture on 'Frontiers of Innovation in Human Space Flight'
SPI Director Scott Pace Discusses the Future of US Space Policy at CFR Live Meeting
SPI Visiting Scholar Speaks at JAXA Washington Office
SPI Director Scott Pace Writes Guest Blog for The Diplomat
George Washington University Team Competes in Quarter Finals of 2013 North American Space Law Moot Court Competition
SPI Alumna to Moderate NASA's First Spanish Language Google+ Hangout
C-SPAN, SpacePolicyOnline, The Space Review and Aviation Week cover SPI-AIAA Event, "Columbia+10: Lessons Learned and Unlearned"
SPI Professor Henry Hertzfeld interviewed on The Space Show
Papers by SPI Faculty named in Science Direct's Top 25 Hottest Articles from Advances in Space Research for 2012
SPI Director Scott Pace cited by Der Spiegel
SPI Students Discuss Space Policy
Space Policy Institute and Secure World Foundation Release 'A Guide to Space Law Terms'
SPI Professor Emeritus John Logsdon speaks in panel on the need for a definitive U.S. space policy
SPI Director Scott Pace testifies before the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
SPI Hosts Workshop on "Developing a Responsible Environmental Regime for Celestial Bodies"
SPI Professor Emeritus John Logsdon discusses the possibility of a new direction in space exploration in the second term of the Obama Administration
SPI Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund named to the National Research Council Committee on Human Spaceflight
SPI Director Scott Pace weighs in on the space policies of the Presidential candidates in Space News
SPI student and faculty present at 63rd International Astronautical Conference in Naples, Italy
SPI Director Scott Pace interviewed on Russian television news program
SPI Director Scott Pace and SPI Associate Professor Kris Lehnhardt participated in the Deep Space: Relaunching American Exceptionalism discussion on the Hill
SPI Director Scott Pace featured at the 2012 Spectrum Management Conference
SPI Director Scott Pace featured at the Washington Space Business Roundtable lunch
SPI Visiting Scholar Chris Gilbert published in Space News
SPI Professor Henry Hertzfeld interviewed on WUSA9
SPI Director Scott Pace published on 38North.org
SPI Director Scott Pace published in the Harvard International Review
SPI Professor Emeritus John Logsdon traces the earlier "survival crisis" of the planetary program
SPI Graduates Laura Delgado and Megan Ansdell are published in Space Policy
SPI Director Scott Pace interviewed on the Kojo Nnamdi Show
SPI Director Scott Pace provided testimony to the House Subcommittee on Aviation
SPI Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund published in Advances in Space Research
SPI Director Scott Pace writes a guest blog for Space News
2011 SPI Graduate Laura Delgado-Lopez interviewed on Mainstream Media Project
SPI Director Scott Pace published in Space News
SPI Professor Pascale Ehrenfreund published in Astrobiology Journal
SPI Director Scott Pace moderated the AIAA Plenary Session: NASA Science Missions in the Next Decade
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