New Obama Policy Heralds International Space Paradigm Shift: Linda Billings

President Obama’s new national space policy is “reconfiguring the U.S. leadership role in global space exploration,” says George Washington University research professor Dr. Linda Billings in a guest blog for Space News.

Noting that the Augustine Committee’s report focused more on international space cooperation than commercial space, despite media attention to the contrary, and remarks by NASA Administrator Bolden over the past year also stressing outreach to international partners, Dr. Billings concludes that “at last, we are seeing an ideological shift for the better” away from the notion that “space exploration is a quintessentially American enterprise.”