Abstract: Space Resources is a field of study developing from activities associated with creating sustainable and continuous human presence in space. Advancement of launch capabilities, space technology, and space commerce are bringing closer the day when utilization of resources will be needed to expand human activity in space. Scientific and technological academic disciplines evolve with the needs of the field of endeavor in which they reside. The new academic discipline of Space Resources is emerging from the technologies, systems, and practices of living and working in space using the resources found in space. The academic discipline of Space Resources is focused on education regarding the means to acquire and transform resources in space to productive purposes. It includes the scientific, technological, economic, social, legal and policy domains needed to use space resources; as such, Space Resources is interdisciplinary. In this paper the author argues that Space Resources is a distinct academic discipline and present a plan for teaching Space Resources.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-11-02
Language: en
Type: article
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