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The Future of Space 2060 aims to inform Air Force Space Command, NASA, and other U.S. Government organizations on the future national security environment and the role that space will play in that environment. The Space Futures Workshop, convened in March of 2019, built upon the work of NATO’s Strategic Foresight Analysis with a specific focus on how political, economic, and technology trends could play out in the space domain. The goal of this work is to build an understanding of the range of possible future space scenarios to inform leaders of the technology investments, national strategies, intergovernmental plans, and partnerships with the commercial sector that must be created to ensure a positive future for the nation. This report is a first step in that direction.
A broad swath of subject matter experts from the Department of Defense, NASA, academia, and the commercial sector – both the traditional defense industry and the burgeoning cadre of “new space” entrepreneurs contributed to this work. Together, the participants sought not only to extrapolate current trends and how they might play out in space, but to anticipate potential inflection points and to chart multiple possible paths to the year 2060. By taking this long-term look into the future of the space domain, we’ve provided insights for critical decisions that leaders must make today.
The Future of Space 2060 does not attempt to predict the future. Rather, it explores the implications of possible developments in the space domain across three factors: commerce, human expansion, and national leadership. Within each of these factors, the global situation may evolve in ways that are positive and negative for U.S. national power and the national power of our allies. We sought to bracket these developments and to postulate their impact on larger issues of great power competition. It is certain that we didn’t get the future exactly right, but the scenarios that we developed are a strong framework for developing strategies and pursuing new capabilities to strengthen our national position in the future—no matter how it plays out.