Mars and Venus Revisited: Juxtaposing EU and US Attitudes Toward Space Traffic Management in the Context of Commercialization.

Twenty years later, the present article revisits Robert Kagan's assertion that Americans are from Venus and Europeans are from Mars. The article questions what place is reserved for space in contemporary EU-US relations at the dawn of the third space age. First, describing some of the challenges in transatlantic cooperation on space matters, the article reviews the history of transatlantic dialogue and cooperation on trade, science, and technology. The focus is then shifted to commercialisation's key challenge of space traffic management detailing scholarly work, possible approaches and comparing EU and US attitudes. To conclude, the article argues that pursuing divergent and uncoordinated approaches to address space traffic management will be detrimental to transatlantic relations and a missed opportunity for a positive dynamic in space governance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]