Richard M. Harrison is the vice president of operations and director of defense technology programs at the American Foreign Policy Council, USA.Peter A. Garretson, Lt. Col., USAF–Ret., is a senior fellow in defense studies at the American Foreign Policy Council, USA, where he co-directs the organization's space policy initiative.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Space Is an Untapped Resource, Peter A. Garretson, Richard M. Harrison, and Anthony Imperato 2. Competing with the Chinese Space Vision, Larry M. Wortzel 3. Challenges to U.S. Space Security, Richard M. Harrison, Cody Retherford, and Peter A. Garretson 4. American Space Primacy in Question, Richard M. Harrison, Peter A. Garretson, and Anthony Imperato 5. The Future of the U.S. Space Force, Richard M. Harrison and Peter A. Garretson 6. Shaping the Global Rules-Based Order of Space, Peter A. Garretson, Richard M. Harrison, Lamont Colucci, and Larry M. Wortzel 7. Charting the Dimensions of Space Competition, Peter A. Garretson and Richard M. Harrison8. Defining an American Space Agenda, Peter A. Garretson and Richard M. Harrison Appendix Notes Contributors Index

The Next Space Race lays out in a holistic and systemic way what is at stake in the contest for leadership in space between the United States and China, and what America's agencies need to be enabled and directed to do. In these pages, we find a menu of concrete steps for the Executive Branch and Congress to take to secure our leadership on the ultimate high ground.