Title

The Tortoise And The Tortoise. The New Race For Space

Abstract

Until now space activity has been driven by international political competition. But recent events in Eastern Europe have undercut the political incentives for expanded space activity, and meanwhile fiscal constraints, arising for different reasons in the USA, Europe and the USSR, are putting unprecedented pressure on space budgets. In the long term, however, it is likely that a new kind of competition fuelled by economic motives will provide the basis for a more determined and perhaps more stable opening of the space frontier. Dropping out of the space race for short-term reasons could be a costly and irrevocable decision. © 1991.

Publication Date

1-1-1991

Publication Title

Space Policy

Volume

7

Issue

3

Number of Pages

199-206

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0265-9646(91)90004-2

Socpus ID

34248271241 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/34248271241

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