by Philip Rossetti | May 21, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads America Plays Russian Rocket Roulette Ron Wahid / Wall Street Journal The U.S. is hooked on Russian rocket engines for space launches. It is a dependence that sits awkwardly with America’s national-security launch program, which includes systems for...
by Caroline Julia von Wurden | Sep 23, 2014 | Monitor
International News Coverage Ebola Ebola could strike 20,000 in six weeks, ‘rumble on for years’: study Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles | Reuters The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect 20,000 people as soon as early November unless rigorous infection control...
by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Sep 22, 2014 | Monitor
In a recent piece for HuffPost’s The Hill, former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and ASP Consensus Member Tara Sonenshine discussed the public diplomacy value of NASA’s announcement of $8.6 billion in contracts to SpaceX...
by Dan Day | Jun 12, 2014 | Monitor
Retired Air Force Lt. General Norm Seip as well as retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen and American Security Project CEO Stephen Cheney wrote an op-ed for The Hill, pushing the government to utilize the private sector, particularly innovative companies like SpaceX, in its...
by Dan Day | Jun 10, 2014 | Monitor
On June 5, Gwynne Shotwell, president and COO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) spoke at the Atlantic Council on the current problems facing the U.S. aerospace industry and how SpaceX is working to restore American primacy in space launch technology. Since...