Journey into the heart of the US space programme
2:13pm
Thursday, 26th June 2003
Yesterday, we met with John Schumacher, the new Chief of Staff at NASA. Getting into NASA isn't the easiest thing to do. We underwent rigorous security checks and has to submit all our questions in advance. However, when we met them, they were helpful enough, and gave us a far from weightless pile of glossy NASA material to read. The one area they weren't particularly keen to discuss was the growing militarization of space, which will be a central concern of our report. They did acknowledge that "the events of September 11th changed the world, and now NASA share a responsibility to actively contribute to homeland security." For more on the militarization debate, read this excellent article by Johnnes Wolf at LSE http://www.unidir.org/pdf/articles/pdf-art1883.pdf
Yesterday, we met with John Schumacher, the new Chief of Staff at NASA. Getting into NASA isn't the easiest thing to do. We underwent rigorous security checks and has to submit all our questions in advance. However, when we met them, they were helpful enough, and gave us a far from weightless pile of glossy NASA material to read. The one area they weren't particularly keen to discuss was the growing militarization of space, which will be a central concern of our report. They did acknowledge that "the events of September 11th changed the world, and now NASA share a responsibility to actively contribute to homeland security." For more on the militarization debate, read this excellent article by Johnnes Wolf at LSE http://www.unidir.org/pdf/articles/pdf-art1883.pdf
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