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JOHN M. LOGSDON
John M. Logsdon is Director of the Space Policy Institute of The George Washington
University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also Professor of Political Science and
International Affairs and Director of the Center for International Science and Technology Policy. He
holds a B.S. in physics from Xavier University and a Ph.D. in political science from New York
University. He has been at The George Washington University since 1970, and previously taught at
The Catholic University of America. He is also a faculty member of the International Space
University and Director of the District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium.
Dr. Logsdon's research interests include U.S. and international space policy, the history of
the U.S. space program, and the structure and process of government decision-making for research
and development programs. He is author of The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and
the National Interest, general editor of the series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the
Evolution of the U.S. Civilian Space Program, and has written numerous articles and reports on space
policy, space history, and science and technology policy. He is North American editor for the
international journal Space Policy.
He is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and the Board of
Trustees of the International Space University, and Chair of the Advisory Council of the Planetary
Society. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
American Institute of Aeronautics. He is currently a member of the Committee on Human Exploration
of the Space Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences, the Commercial Space Transportation
Advisory Committee of the Department of Transportation, and on a blue-ribbon international
committee evaluating Japan's National Space Development Agency. In past years, he was a member
of the Vice President's Space Policy Advisory Board, the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board
of the National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences - National Academy of
Engineering Committee on Space Policy and the NRC Committee on a Commercially Developed
Space Facility, NASA's Space and Earth Science Advisory Committee and the History Advisory
Committee of the National Air and Space Museum. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on
Science and Public Policy of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the
Education Committee of the International Astronautical Federation. Dr. Logsdon has lectured and
spoken to a wide variety of audiences at professional meetings and colleges and universities,
international conferences, and other settings, and has testified before Congress on numerous
occasions. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on various space
issues. He is currently a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars and was the first holder of the Chair in Space History of the National Air and Space
Museum. Dr. Logsdon has served as a consultant to many public and private organizations.
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