CDE Debate Handbook: Space Exploration
Solvency attacks include person power, proliferation, space debris, cost-benefit, NASA
Topicality attacks on mesosphere, effects, exploration, extra-topicality, space, federal government. Harm attack and harm turns on issues such as cost/benefit, the explorative imperative, and military threats. Space and Science Kritiks. Counterplans include China consultation, privatization, IGOs, and alternative agents.
CASE SPECIFIC attacks and blocks on terraforming Mars, asteroid mining, killer asteroids, tether satellites, exploring Europa, mission to Titan, Space mirrors, solar power satellites, revive the Saturn V, parallel universes, search for other earthlike planets, space station reform, a new shuttle program, space astronomy, solar sails, solving space rad-
iation risks, gun launch platforms, prolong the Hubble, spin-off technologies, spy satellite expansion, massive heavy-lift launch vehicle, satellite collisions, black Apollo, deep ops, space colonization, extrasolar planets, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, space elevator, more.
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