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Plan: The United States Federal Government should provide subsidies to help cover the cost of the first four Solar Power Satellite launches.

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Space is the 21^st Century battlefield – spacefaring nations are running in stride with the US – only enhancing space technology allows us to control the commons

Dowd, 2009

(Alan W., senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, Stanford University Hoover Institution, Policy Review #156, “Surrendering Outer Space”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5421, 9/6/12, DRS)

The next war In 1996, the Clinton … will not stand still while the United States regroups.

This is especially true for Space Solar Power

William John Cox, ’11, public interest lawyer, author and political activist Tuesday (Consortium News, The Race for Solar Energy from Space, http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62659.shtml, 9/6/12, DRS)

The failure of the General Electric … political and military problems.

SPS development ensures continued American tech and scientific competitiveness

NSSO, 2007, (National Space Security Organization, joint office to support the Executive Agent for Space and the newly formed Defense Space Council, 10/10/2007, Space‐Based Solar Power As an Opportunity For Strategic Security, Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study, http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf, 9/6/12, DRS)

FINDING: The SBSP Study Group …Competitiveness Initiative.

That’s key to hegemony

Adam Segal, Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, (“Is America Losing Its Edge?,”  November/December 2004, Foreign Affairs, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20041101facomment83601/adam-segal/is-america-losing-its-edge.html?mode=print, 9/6/12, DRS)

Today, however, this technological edge-… technological entrepreneurship at home.

US hegemony is key to global stability and growth

Bradley A. Thayer, Professor Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, 2006, (The National Interest, November/December, p. Lexis, 9/6/12, DRS)

THROUGHOUT HISTORY, peace and stability have … assists the countries in need.

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Try or Die for Space-~--Extinction is Inevitable:

A. Super volcanoes

Britt 5 (Robert Roy Britt, Livescience Senior Writer, “Super volcanoes will chill the world someday”, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7129908/, 9/6/12, DRS)

The eruption of a super volcano "sooner … the report concludes.

B. Overpopulation

Mcdougall et al 7 (Rosamund Mcdougall, Co-Chair of the Optimum Population Trust and Joint Policy Director, “Too many people: Earth’s population problem”, Optimum Population Trust, http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.earth.html, 9/6/12, DRS)

The Earth faces a future of rising … evil than conflict and suffering.

C. Asteroid Strikes

Lt. Col. Kunich - Staff Judge Advocate, 50th Space Wing, Falcon Air Force Base – 1997 (John C., “Planetary Defense: The Legality of Global Survival,” The Air Force Law Review, Volume 41 [41 A.F.L. rev. 119).  [Online] LexisNexis, 9/6/12, DRS)

It is true that destructive impacts of … by the military, including the United States Air Force.

Colonization is key-it’s time to leave Earth or face extinction

Fox News 10 (Fox News, “Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns – Again”, http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/, 6/9/12, DRS)

It's time to abandon Earth, warned …  into space," he said.

SPS makes colonization and distant space missions possible

Mankins 1 (John C, “Space Solar Power: A Major New Energy Option?”, President of Artemis Innovation Management Solutions, an internationally recognized leader in space systems and technology innovation, 25-year career at NASA and CalTech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),

http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdfandid=JAEEEZ000014000002000038000001andidtype=cvipsanddoi=10.1061/(ASCE)0893-1321(2001)14:2(38)andprog=normal, 9/6/12, DRS)

SSP technologies are also broadly … analogous to geosynchronous Earth orbit

Colonization’s the only way to ensure human survival-~--we won’t be able to predict what causes extinction which means all counter-measures will fail

Gott 9 (J. Richard Gott, Professor of Astrophysics at Princeton University, July 17, 2009, “A GOAL FOR THE HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM,” online: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/368985main_GottSpaceflightGoal.pdf, 9/6/12, DRS)

The goal of the human … logical place to start.

Colonization will lead to alien contact

Lombardo, PhD. founder and Executive Director of the Center for Future Consciousness, 08

(Tom, Space Exploration and Cosmic Evolution, http://www.centerforfutureconsciousness.com/pdf_files/Readings/ReadingSpaceExploration.pdf, 9/6/12, DRS)

It is clear why traveling into outer … of existence.

Alien Contact solves all human violence, and turns us into demi-gods. It’s awesome.

Tough, Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 91

(Allen, Prof. OISE, founded Invit. to ETI, Journal of British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 39, pp 492, “What Role will extraterrestrials play in humanity’s future?” http://www.ieti.org/articles/1986.htm, 9/6/12, DRS)

Probable capacities in one … revolutions or revelations?"

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Government subsidies will incentivize the industry to evolve and lower the costs of launches thus making the industry self-sustaining and profitable                                                     

Shea, Contributor to the Online Journal of Space Communication, 10 (Karen, Master of Arts in Science Technology and Public Policy with Specialty in Space Policy, “Why Has SPS RandD Received So Little Funding?”  Issue 16: Partnerships Public/Private, Winter 2011, 9/2/12, DRS)

Space solar power is stuck because of …energy needs are met.

Incentives Will Allow The Private Industry To Achieve Required Space Capabilities for colonization.

NASA, 07 (NASA, “Space Based Solar Power as an Opportunity for Strategic Security” Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study, http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf, 9/6/12, DRS)

Several major challenges will need to be … coming on-line today.

Technology now for a one year build

Snead 7 (Mike, Aerospace engineering @ AFIT, Lead structures engineer) DRS

My assumption is that the SSP satellites …, or about 6 per day.  

SPS is technologically feasible and can meet our energy needs

NSSO 8 (National Security Space Office) DRS

Immensely Scalable — SSP can scale to …, and beyond.

SPS is technologically and economically feasible

Foust 7 (James, aerospace Analyst@Space Review, The Space Review) DRS

One obstacle facing space solar power is that … economically feasible.”

Government subsidies to cover launch costs would insure SPS development and lower launch costs                                                                                                                              Shea, Contributor to the Online Journal of Space Communication, 10 (Karen, Master of Arts in Science Technology and Public Policy with Specialty in Space Policy, “Why Has SPS RandD Received So Little Funding?”  Issue 16: Partnerships Public/Private, Winter 2011, 9/2/12, DRS)

Launching satellites and related materials … for additional launches.

Government subsidies will incentivize the industry to evolve and lower the costs of launches thus making the industry self-sustaining and profitable

 Shea, Contributor to the Online Journal of Space Communication, 10 (Karen, Master of Arts in Science Technology and Public Policy with Specialty in Space Policy, “Why Has SPS RandD Received So Little Funding?”  Issue 16: Partnerships Public/Private, Winter 2011, 9/2/12, DRS)

Space solar power is stuck because of … energy needs are met.