Commentary by Mike Snead, President, Spacefaring Institute™
Download The High frontier: A New Strategy—the important book published in 1982 by Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham (USA, retired) that helped to start the Strategic Defense Initiative under President Reagan. Continue Reading125 – Downloadable PDF – The High Frontier: A New National Strategy, by Lt. Gen. Daniel O. Graham, 1982
As part of its “great rejuvenation” to seek global hegemony, communist China has a “space dream” to dominate the coming spacefaring industrial revolution. U.S. Space Command will need an American “Star Fleet” with substantial manned space combat capabilities to respond to the growing communist Chinese space threat. Continue Reading118 – Communist China’s Space Threat
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Three decades ago, eight members of Congress requested that the Congressional Research Service assess the potential for the expanded military use of space by both the United States and the Continue Reading117 – Col. John M. Collin’s classic 1989 report “Military Space Forces: The Next Fifty Years”
Watch the key parts of President Kennedy’s 1962 Rice University speech where he called for America to be the world’s leading spacefaring nation. Continue Reading111 – President Kennedy’s “We choose to go to the moon” speech
Post 108 – Exploiting the vast potential of the natural resources of outer space was first identified by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky in his 1926 book Sixteen Stages of Space Exploration. Through his writings, he identified quite clearly our spacefaring future. Continue Reading108 – Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky: Humanity’s spacefaring future-teller
107 – My commentary on why Space Policy Directive 4 goes much farther than just starting a U.S. Space Force; it starts America’s transition into a true human spacefaring nation Continue Reading107 – WOW! Examining Space Policy Directive 4 directing DOD to propose creating a U.S. Space Force and much more!
Post 106 – Recommended reading: Dr. Lamont Colucci argues that a full-fledged U.S. Space Force is needed to meet America’s needs this century in our now clearly apparent Great Power competition with China Continue Reading106 – Recommended reading: A Space Service in Support of American Grand Strategy
Post 105 recommends reading an excellent article on why a U.S. Space Force, as a separate service, is needed. Continue Reading105 – Recommended reading: To Rule the Orbits: Why the U.S. Military Needs an Independent Space Force
A constitutional climate lawsuit against President Trump could trigger America undertaking GEO space solar power. Continue Reading100 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 3) – Updated
As General Arnold first recognized 60 years ago, the United States must become a true human spacefaring nation, both militarily and commercially. Continue Reading99 – 2019: Moving America towards becoming a true human spacefaring nation (Part 2)
At his Wednesday night (June 20, 2018) Minnesota rally, when President Trump began to explain that he was reinvigorating NASA’s human space exploration program, supporters spontaneously took up the chant Continue Reading88 – Overcoming the “deep state” opposition to a U.S. Space Force
On February 29, 2016, the first of my three-part series on world environmental and US energy security was published in The Space Review. (The pdf of the article is available here.) Continue Reading56 – Space Review series (Part 1): The Paris Climate Agreement and Space Solar Power
In 2008, I wrote a Spacefaring America blog entry focusing on the upcoming presidential elections. Barack Obama won that election and, as is now very clear, his administration had absolutely Continue Reading46 – Let’s make 2016 a very important year for America’s spacefaring future
Internal advertisement—if you have not already done so, please take 12 minutes to watch my video on space solar power available at http://spacesolarpower.us. On January 26, 2012, former Continue Reading30 – Newt Gingrich’s campaign speech on space
Nation’s prosper by the foresight, wisdom, and tenacity of their leaders. Foresight provides recognition of coming challenges and needs that a nation must meet and that will only Continue Reading29 – America is lacking in human spacefaring leaders
Series recap: This series began, over a year ago, at the conclusion of the National Security Space Office’s (NSSO) 2007 ad hoc study of space-based solar power or, Continue Reading25 – Space Solar Power and America’s Energy Future (Part 6)
On October 10, 2007, I appeared on David Livingston’s The Space Show to talk about spacefaring logistics. For general white papers on the U.S. becoming a true spacefaring nation, Continue Reading16 – Mike Snead’s talking points from his “The Space Show” appearance
A key tenet of a true spacefaring nation is the ability to provide safe and routine access to space for its citizens. Europe appears to be on the verge Continue Reading13 – Is Europe stepping to the front of the line on commercial suborbital flight?
In preparation for the inauguration of George W. Bush in 2001, the newspaper USA Today ran a souvenir edition for January 19-21, 2001. In this edition, the published a series Continue Reading11 – “Dear Mr. President,”
To be effective in significantly changing the course of the American space enterprise, starting in 2009 with the new president, near-term engineering solutions need to be identified whose implementation can Continue Reading10 – Useful “near-term” solutions are “third best” solutions