The Resolution  Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere

Aff Cases: Development  Colonization Cases  Extra-solar colonization  Generational star ships  Panspermia  Von Neumann probes  Solar colonization  Lunar colonization  Martian colonization  Orbital colonization

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d]  Resource Extraction Cases  Asteroid mining (NEAs)  Lunar mining (He3)  Lunar solar power  Space solar power (PowerSats)

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d]  Military Cases  Doctrine  Forces (Space Forces)  Weapons systems/types  Missile Defense/SBI  Space-Based Lasers (SBL)  STEW/Rods from God

Aff Cases: Dev’t [cont’d]  Space Access Cases  Constellation  Railgun  Reusable launch vehicle  Small booster rockets  Space elevator  Space junk removal  Transorbital railroad

Aff Cases: Exploration [cont’d]  Propulsion development  Anti-matter  Nuclear/Project Orion  Solar sails

Aff Cases: Exploration  Asteroid mapping/defense  Deep space/origins research  ISS (expand or new)  NEA mission (robotic, crewed)  Remote sensing  Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)

Aff Cases: Cooperation  Joint missions with…  China  India  South Korea

Aff Cases: Other (policy)  Export controls/ITAR  Private space—promote/remove barriers  Space Tourism

Aff Cases: Other (weird)  Astral projection  Inner space/transcendental meditation  U.S. off the Planet (Churchill)  Worm holes/time travel

Disadvantage Areas  Budget DAs  Fiscal discipline  Tradeoffs  Politics DAs  Elections  Presidential agenda

Disad Areas [cont’d]  Space-y DAs  Diseases  Launch accidents  Overcrowding (GSO)  Ozone  Space junk  Space regime credibility/Space law  Space weaponization

Counterplan Areas  Domestic Agents  NASA  New agency  Department of Defense  Executive  Congress  Multilateral Cooperation  Private Actor/Prizes

Counterplan Areas [cont’d]  International Agents (net benefits can be written as disads)  China  EU  Japan  Russia  Emerging space powers—Brazil, India, South Korea  Bilateral Cooperation—same list  Advantage CPs

Kritik Ground  The usual suspects [See: France, philosophy; Germany, philosophy]  Capitalism  Objectivism  Anthropocentrism  Escapism  Technologism (Heidegger et al.)  Space Colonialism  Space Security  Transhumanism  Virilio/Speed