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This seminar offers students a comprehensive introduction to space policy, exploring its history, contemporary challenges, technological implications, and future.

In addition, students will get the unique opportunity to contribute to new research by Belfer Fellows Ariel Ekblaw, Ely Sandler, and John “JD” DeMello on the governance of outer space, which they are developing in discussions with NASA, US Space Force, ESA, and other international space agencies.

At the end of the semester, participants will be invited to MIT’s flagship space event, Beyond the Cradle, presenting ideas developed in the semester to the space policy and technology community. Participants may be invited to discussions with senior policymakers in Washington, D.C. and Colorado Springs, CO.

Session 6 | Reforming International Cooperation & Space Governance: Policy Entrepreneurship in Space

Our final session will round up the discussions to dive into a new proposal on space governance. Participants will contribute to Sandler and Ekblaw’s paper, as well as develop their own ideas on how policy can solve contemporary challenges as we become a spacefaring society.