One data file for space organizations and resources

Hello everyone,

I have noticed from discussing different issues in various forums that collecting data into one file would be very helpful. For instance, Zahrah Musa is trying to collect information on "the ministries, agencies, institutions, companies, societies that utilize/ provide, teach and promote space in Africa." Also one of the tasks of the Research Team is "identifying "customers" for our reports (UN, think tanks, NASA, specific companies, market research groups), and NPoCs should have some information on what space organizations and resources are in their respective countries.

I am including a list I keep of different space organizations and research information. I usually add links to information while I am writing papers, and find something useful. Is there a way to include this information is a file on the SGAC website so that all of us can just add the information we each have/find to keep the list growing a up to date and so that anyone in SGAC working on different project can access the information?

Ari Litwin

Space Resource List:

List of national space agencies
Wikipedia list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_agencies

List of space corporations
Arianespace http://www.arianespace.com/site/index.html
Bigelow Aerospace http://www.bigelowaerospace.com/
Boeing http://www.boeing.com/ids/
Lockheed Martin http://www.lockheedmartin.com/
SpaceX http://www.spacex.com/
Starsem http://www.starsem.com/
Virgin Galactic http://www.virgingalactic.com/

List of governmental space policy sites
Africa
African Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education – English
http://www.arcsstee.org/mission.htm
Earth
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/COPUOS/copuos.html
Europe
European Commission – European Space Policy
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/space/index_en.html
United States
House of Rep. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics
http://science.house.gov/subcommittee/space.aspx
Office of Science and Technology Policy
http://www.ostp.gov/
Senate Subcommittee on Space, Aeronautics, and Related Sciences
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Subcommittees.Sub...

List of space think tanks / research organizations
Europe
European Space Policy Institute
http://www.espi.or.at/
United States
Center for Strategic & International Studies – Human Space Exploration Initiative
http://www.csis.org/hse/
Congressional Research Service Reports on Space Policy
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/space/
Council on Foreign Relations – Space
http://www.cfr.org/issue/121/space.html
National Academies Space Studies Board
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/ssb/index.html
RAND – Transportation, Space, and Technology Program
http://www.rand.org/ise/tech/
Space Policy Institute
http://www.gwu.edu/~spi/

List of academic journals
Astropolitics
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713634457
Space Policy
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30469/descr...

Some space cooperation papers
The Case for Managed International Cooperation in Space Exploration
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/060918_managed_international_coopera...
The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination – May 2007
http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/resources/publications/global.asp
Human Space Exploration for All
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/070321_hseefa_unesco_interim_report....
Joint Working Group on Lunar Cooperation
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/resources/PDF/NASABNSCJWG.pdf

Hello Kevin,

Sounds great! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Ari Litwin