MEQUON 鈥 Award-winning author and playwright Orson Scott Card was front and center in Concordia Center for National Security and Space鈥檚 second annual Space Summit on April 13.
Card, who鈥檚 best known for his award-winning 1985 military science fiction novel, "Ender鈥檚 Game," served as the keynote speaker for this year鈥檚 summit, which centered on "How to achieve the best future for the United States."
Attendees were able to listen to experts discuss important issues regarding the American future in space, including technology, grand strategy, economics, national security and more.
"Because what most Americans have forgotten, or never knew, is that we already fight our wars at least partly in space. All our battlefields involve, one way or another, satellites, which are put into space by rockets and which are vital for exercising command and control as well as acquisition of intelligence about enemy movements and capabilities," Card said. "If we were deprived of those satellites, we would be back to sixties-level tactical capabilities."
In addition to Card, the all-day event featured several other experts in the field, including Concordia鈥檚 Lamont Colucci, who is the inaugural Director of Doctrine Development for the United States Space Force.
Another was Chief Economist of MilkyWayEconomy George Pullen, who also discussed the importance the space sector has on people鈥檚 lives.
鈥淲e have to realize that space interacts with everything else,鈥 he said. 鈥... We鈥檝e come so far, so fast that unless we stop we don鈥檛 realize that we鈥檙e living in the future now.鈥
According to CUW鈥檚 website, CCNSS exists to promote American national security, space economics and power, science, and exploration, unifying the ideals of virtue, free enterprise, human potential and American security. Rick Tumlinson, co-founder of Space Fund, Deep Space Industries, Orbital Outfitters, the New World Institute, as well as one of the world鈥檚 top visionaries in the field, led last year鈥檚 summit.
鈥淭he NSSC鈥檚 mission is to connect them with experts to further their education within the context of Christian vocation,鈥 according to a CUW press release. 鈥淚n doing so, the Center is working to ensure Condordia鈥檚 graduates are prepared to be successful competitors in the workforce.鈥
Among the other speakers were Gen. John Shaw, a retired three-star general from the U.S. Space Force; Joel Mozer, director of Science, Technology, and Research at the U.S. Space Force; Martin Edwards, a principal systems engineer with prior experience in the United States Air Force; Rev. Eric Skovgaard, an Elm Grove Lutheran Church pastor; and Tumlinson.
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