Nigerias Space Journey

Author : Adigun Ade Abiodun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998332109
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigeria's Space Journey written by Adigun Ade Abiodun and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK "Nigeria's Space Journey - Understanding its Past, Reshaping its Future" is about space and its impact on a developing country, with Nigeria as a case study. The book focuses on the steps Nigeria is taking to achieve its space and related goals; it is divided into six main sections: Space in Human Lives; Space Efforts in Nigeria; Reawakening of Nigeria; Nigeria's Space Priorities; Contributions to the Resolution of Global Concerns; and Moving Ahead. When, in 1962, a 40-pound meteorite from Mars - named Zagami - landed in Nigeria, it was a significant space encounter for the nation. Soon after, in 1963, was the equally historic first ever live satellite telephone conversation between America's then youngest President and Nigeria's first Prime Minister. Was space beckoning? Nigeria eventually took the plunge in 2001 and defined its space objective in these words: "To make Nigeria build indigenous competence in developing, designing and building appropriate hardware and software in space technology as an essential tool for its socio-economic development and enhancement of the quality of life of its people." However, instead of pursuing the above objective, Nigeria swallowed the bait of the satellite merchants that touted the acquisition of micro-satellites as the quickest and cheapest way to space for the developing countries. With a focus on the upstream-end of the technology, a string of such acquisitions soon became the centrepiece of the nation's space programme, acquisitions which have taken the nation off course and away from attaining the goals articulated in the above national space objective. The book examines and analyses the lessons Nigeria has learned on such a space journey, to-date. It concludes that the nation's space efforts have not delivered as promised and that the nation's space journey should be redefined and redesigned for Nigeria to attain its space and related goals. As Nigeria looks to the future, it must effectively utilise its natural endowments to earn its badge of honour as a space capable country, with an initial focus on the downstream impact of the technology. Thus, it would need to retool its own science and technology (S&T) capabilities and utilise these assets to enhance its economic development and improve the wellbeing of its people. The book draws on a number of examples from other nations and addresses how Nigeria could learn and benefit from their experience. Nigeria's steadfast commitment to the adoption and implementation of the proposed priorities in this book will enable it to secure its passport to its own future as a knowledge society and a developed country. It will also empower the nation to shape its own space and economic future, become a leading partner and voice in determining Africa's future, and be a reliable collaborator in the solution of global problems. By conscientiously following these approaches, Nigeria should be able to proclaim, in the near future, that "Space is our operational tool of development."

Author : Deji Bryce Olukotun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939419019
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nigerians in Space written by Deji Bryce Olukotun and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1993. Houston. Dr. Wale Olufunmi, lunar rock geologist, has a life most Nigerian immigrants would kill for, but then most Nigerians aren't Wale--a great scientific mind in exile with galactic ambitions. Then comes an outlandish order: steal a piece of the moon. With both personal and national glory at stake, Wale manages to pull off the near impossible, setting out on a journey back to Nigeria that leads anywhere but home. Compelled by Wale's impulsive act, Nigerians traces arcs in time and space from Houston to Stockholm, from Cape Town to Bulawayo, picking up on the intersecting lives of a South African abalone smuggler, a freedom fighter's young daughter, and Wale's own ambitious son. Deji Olukotun's debut novel defies categorization, a story of international intrigue that tackles deeper questions about exile, identity, and the need to answer an elusive question: what exactly is brain gain? -- Back cover.

Author : Robert C. Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415538459
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Policy in Developing Countries written by Robert C. Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the rationale and history of space programs in countries of the developing world. Space was at one time the sole domain of the wealthiest developed countries. However, the last couple of decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century have witnessed the number of countries with state-supported space programs blossom. Today, no less than twenty-five developing states, including the rapidly emerging economic powers of Brazil (seventh-largest), China (second-largest), and India (fourth-largest), possess active national space programs with already proven independent launch capability or concrete plans to achieve it soon. This work places these programs within the context of international relations theory and foreign policy analysis. The author categorizes each space program into tiers of development based not only on the level of technology utilised, but on how each fits within the country's overall national security and/or development policies. The text also places these programs into an historical context, which enables the author to demonstrate the logical thread of continuity in the political rationale for space capabilities generally. This book will be of much interest to students of space power and politics, development studies, strategic studies and international relations in general.

Author : Sarah Lieberman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000851141
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Commercialisation of Space written by Sarah Lieberman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector. Using a framework based around theories of international political economy (IPE), the chapters take on issues relating to the politics, the economics and the ethics of commercialising space. The book aims to build a bridge between the research carried out on European Space Policy and the issues that are currently pertinent in the global discussion of future space policy. Overall, the volume aims to: inform the reader about historical and contemporary developments in the neoliberal commercialisation of space assess the impact of the commercialisation of space on European space institutions, European space policy and European space culture raise ethical questions about the environmental and practical sustainability of the commercialisation of space examine the compatibility of the commercialisation of space with international, EU and national law. This book will be of much interest to students of space policy, global governance, European politics and International Relations.

Author : Saadia M. Pekkanen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197582672
Total Pages : 905 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Space Security written by Saadia M. Pekkanen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Space Security focuses on the interaction between space technology and international and national security processes. Saadia M. Pekkanen and P.J. Blount have gathered a group of key scholars who bring a range of analytical and theoretical perspectives to take an analytically-eclectic approach to assessing space security from an international relations (IR) theory perspective. Bringing together scholarship from a group of leading experts, this volume explains how these contemporary changes will affect future security in, from, and through space.

Author : Mahulena Hofmann
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3845290250
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Outer Space: International and African Legal Perspective written by Mahulena Hofmann and published by Nomos Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band präsentiert die Ergebnisse zweier Workshops zum "Space and Satellite Communication Law" an der Universität Luxemburg. Neben Fortschritten bei der Erforschung des Weltraums, wurden insbesondere innovative Nutzungsarten des Alls diskutiert – und welche rechtlichen Auswirkungen hieraus entstehen. In Zusammenhang mit der vermehrten Nutzung der Weltraumtechnik, wurden die Innovationsprozesse auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent diskutiert. Der wachsende Bedarf an Weltraumdiensten, mobiler Satellitenkommunikation, Internetzugang, Katastrophenmanagement und Navigation verlangt ebenfalls nach rechtlichen Regelungen.

Author : Maria A. Pozza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819707145
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ascending to Space written by Maria A. Pozza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James S. J. Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019760479X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Space written by James S. J. Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Space, to use a worn metaphor, is in the mind of the beholder. When we contemplate the seemingly limitless universe, we tend to project onto space our own hopes and dreams (as well as our fears and anxieties). But like responses to Rorschach inkblots, there are many different hopes, dreams, fears, and anxieties that one can project onto the night's sky. To those who approach it with a thirst for profits, space appears as a resource-rich goldmine, beckoning to anyone with enough wealth and privilege to take advantage of untapped markets. To those who approach it with a yearning for human expansion, space appears as a frontier that is humanity's birthright to conquer, its new manifest destiny. To those who approach it with a passion for knowledge and understanding, space appears as a tantalizing and pristine laboratory for scientific exploration. In these ways, our visions for humanity's future in space--what planets and moons we hope to visit, what we hope to accomplish when we get there--are more products of our perspectives about space (and our underlying worldviews and value systems) than anything else"--

Author : Alfred Rosenthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venture Into Space: Early Years of Goddard Space Flight Center written by Alfred Rosenthal and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jose C. Sánchez-García
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1838809627
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Organizations written by Jose C. Sánchez-García and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the multidisciplinary nature of our object of study, sustainability, we have divided this book into twelve chapters. In the first four, we cover the content required to learn how to start a business and create companies based on sustainability. The following chapters provide guidance to help translate sustainability strategies across cultures. These processes are analyzed through the Triple Bottom Line perspective, which effectively describes the primary objectives of sustainability. The last chapters analyze current trends in sustainable development, framing education as a powerful tool to facilitate the transition to more sustainable forms of development. Through these chapters, the understanding of the theoretical concepts is facilitated and examples of sustainable enterprises are made available to the reader that serves as a reference and that allow the development of practical activities.