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January 2001 News

  1. WANT TO STAY SAFE? KEEP OUT OF SPACE Eliot Kleinberg, The Palm Beach Post January 28, 2001 -- It may be no coincidence that the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts died not in the deadly reaches of space but either sitting on the pad or during launch or reentry, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization.
  2. Space tourism still a bit out of this world By Lee Bowman The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) January 28, 2001 - "After four decades of space flight, there still has been no improvement in the cost of getting into Earth orbit," said John Pike. "That's not going to change anytime soon. If the good Lord had meant for us to become space tourists, we'd have been born with more money."
  3. Military learns from Gulf War glitches, updates space technology By John Diedrich The Gazette (Colorado Springs) January 27, 2001 -- Space Command shouldn't be blamed automatically, said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a defense policy research organization in Washington, DC. The military space gurus were in the midst of upgrading systems, evolving them from a Cold War stance to a more flexible position. The Gulf War just came a little early, Pike said.
  4. STATION'S RESEARCH VALUE NOT SKY HIGH, SOME SAY Michael Cabbage, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL January 24, 2001 -- "It's going to give the American scientific community substantially more research time in microgravity [weightlessness]," said John Pike, a space expert and director of the GlobalSecurity.com policy research organization. "But I don't expect them to start pumping out Nobel Prizes any time soon."
  5. Against Huge Odds, Faster Arms Acquisition BY PAUL MANN Aviation Week & Space Technology January 22, 2001 - Vice President Richard B. Cheney canceled the Navy's A-12 and took a run at the V-22 when he was defense secretary for Bush's father, recalled John E. Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, a research organization. ''I think Rumsfeld will take a crack at cancellations too,'' Pike predicted. ''Clearly, it will be the litmus test of whether they're serious about restructuring.''
  6. Laser-equipped 747 designed to blast ballistic missiles Cable News Network January 19, 2001 -- "If we give the Air Force enough money and enough time, the Airborne Laser will probably achieve many of its goals," said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org and formerly of the Federation of American Scientists. He considers the project probably a very good investment.
  7. New Airborne Laser Experiment Held in Kansas BYLINE: Lou Waters, Rick Lockridge CNN TODAY January 11, 2001; Thursday -- LOCKRIDGE: John Pike is a respected weapons-system watchdog. JOHN PIKE, DIRECTOR, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: Well, the Air Force has been trying to put a laser on a big airplane for nearly a quarter of a century.
  8. Dependence On Satellites Makes U.S. Vulnerable By Andrea Stone, USA Today January 11, 2001 -- "If you live in a glass house, you shouldn't be organizing rock-throwing contests," says John Pike, head of GlobalSecurity.org, a defense research group. "It should be unthinkable, regarded as abnormal and abhorrent, that someone would attack a satellite."
  9. GEORGE W. BUSH VISITS PENTAGON WITH DESIGNS TO IMPROVE MILITARY NBC NIGHTLY NEWS (6:30 PM ET) January 10, 2001, MIKLASZEWSKI: For Bush, the controversial National Missile Defense is a top priority. Mr. JOHN PIKE (Globalsecurity.org): It's going to cost a lot of money. It's going to generate a lot of controversy.
  10. Space and the Springs - Bush's defense policy likely to affect Springs By John Diedrich The Colorado Springs Gazette Fri, 19 Jan 2001 -- But don't automatically blame Space Command, said John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a defense policy research organization in Washington, D.C. The military space gurus were in the midst of upgrading systems, evolving them from a Cold War stance to a more flexible position.
  11. Bush's nominee could start arms race in space Ian Brodie The Times (London) January 1, 2001, Monday -- John Pike, head of GlobalSecurity.org and an opponent of space weapons, said that some Republicans in Congress who favoured developing anti-satellite weapons and lasers believed that the US should also consider establishing a separate space force, "much as we have a separate Air Force".
  12. 2001 NO SPACE ODYSSEY FAMOUS YEAR IN FICTION IS HERE, BUT SCIENTISTS ARE LEFT TO MARVEL ONLY AT MOVIE Keay Davidson San Francisco Chronicle Monday, January 1, 2001 "The movie was the future I wanted to create," John Pike recalls wistfully. "The future ain't (cq) what it used to be," he admits. "Pan Am went bust, there are no bases on the Moon, and the (International) Space Station doesn't have a Hilton."
  13. JSF Rivals Face off by Ben Iannotta Aerospace America January, 2001 -- "How do you avoid coming up with a [Joint Strike Fighter] that nobody likes, or a fly-off that turns out to be a fly-apart? That's the question," says John Pike.
  14. Ex-defense secretary selected for second tour Finlay Lewis The San Diego Union-Tribune December 29, 2000, Friday Pg. A-1 "We're going to wind up with more Chinese nuclear missiles aimed at American cities" if the treaty is ditched, said John Pike, a director of globalsecurity.org, a defense policy group. "There is no way the Chinese are going to stand by and let us disarm them while we remain armed."