Your Call 122908 Who Controls Space?

Who controls space? On the next Your Call, we'll revisit a show we did as part of our series on the commons. Control of space is at the crux of the debate about the future of U.S. military space policy. What rules apply? Do military and commercial uses of space threaten its status as a shared resource? Is it time for a new space treaty? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Mike Moore, author of Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance  

Kim Alaine Rathman, member of the Society for Philosophy and Technology 

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Your Call 010908 Care For What We Share: Space

How do we care for the things we share? On the next Your Call we launch a new series on Global Commons.  We'll look at the heritage, ideas, medicines and places that we all hold in trust and use together. Our first show will examine the largest commons, Space. Space starts just outside our atmosphere and goes on forever. Is it a limited resource that needs care in its exploitation or is it vast enough for private companies and governments rich and poor to share? What rules should apply there and who should enforce them and should the space cops be packing heat when they're up there? It's your call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mike Moore
Author of Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance.

Kim Alaine Rathman
She received a doctorate in Ethics and Public Policy, with an emphasis in Outer Space Law and Policy, from the cooperative program between the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley; a Master of Divinity with a concentration in Religion and Society from Union Theological Seminary in New York.

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