Goals for SGC 2007

I was reviewing the Project Team overview and I think we might be attacking this topic a bit to broadly:

"The research team is intended to formalise and structure our approach to research and reporting. The overall responsibilities include:

* identifying "customers" for our reports (UN, think tanks, NASA, specific
companies, market research groups)
* create, manage and promote surveys
* process results
* finalize reports
* publish/print or distribute online
* promote our work
* manage volunteers to assist
* make strategic decisions about what surveys and reports we do, with those
decisions supporting the SGAC's long term goals."

That being said, what should we focus on before SGC? (I am also excited about the side topics, as well, but I think we should address the the stated goals first.)

I think reaching out to space policy institutes in various countries would be beneficial. Politicians and lobbyists rely on policy analysts for much of their decision making material. Having a strong working relationship with these experts at these institutes should be one of our key goals, if we are not in contact already. This would definitely boost the quality of UN COPUOS input we provide.

David Turner (Center for Space Policy and Strategy), Dr. John Logsdon (Director, Space Policy Institute
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University), and Dr. James Vedda (Center for Space Policy and Strategy) recently participated in a panel entitled "International Cooperation, Competition, and the New National Space Policy" in Colorado Springs. If you have a chance, I highly recommend a thorough perusal. The link is here.

As we are aiming to help the world's exploration of the space ,to do surveys about the public's ideas on it will do great help.And here are my visions of some possible topics of the new survey.

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In the next 50 years ,human-beings will of course make farther and farther reach of the deep space.

And is it needed to put our money and energy to do the study of space-transfer stations?

As we know that to get to the Mars will take about one hundred days,but in the next 50 years we will reach farther than it .

Should we take all the things such as energy we need with us to cover the distance or firstly build some space-transfer stations somewhere such as the moon or the Mars? I think it should be a question.

And to make the journey more economical there must be a point on the distance .I think the point is the one that after we've reached it we should firstly build the transfer stations and if we don't there is no need to do it.(That is
--there could be a length of the distance we get reached of space,if we go farther then it we should build the stations or else we needn't.)

So here we come to the question of the essence
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Can human-beings pass the point of the distance in the next 50 years?

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And now to make travels to space more popular in the next 50 years is in many people's minds.But still it will be one thing that can be taken by the minority and of course it will do harm to the environment of space.
Is it meritorious to put more energy on it's study?
What are the advantages of the subject to make the space-travel more popular?
And if the world wants to do the study in the next 50 years what can be the sakes to make the public to contribute to the project such as in finance?