Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Financial/Investment Considerations -- Financial/Investment Analysis -- Financing Space Projects -- Chapter 2. Cost Analysis -- Standard Cost Elements for Technology Programs -- Cost-Estimating Relationships for Space Programs -- Cost-Estimating Relationships: A DCAA Perspective -- Cost Estimating for Technology Programs -- Space System Life Cycle Cost and Availability Analysis -- Chapter 3. Benefit/Cost and Cost Effectiveness Models -- Measuring Returns to Space Research and Development -- Measuring and Managing Spinoffs: The Case of the Spinoffs Generated by ESA programs -- Economics and Regulation of Space Activities -- Chapter 4. Economics of the Marketplace -- Remote Sensing -- Product and Service Pricing: Launch Vehicles -- Product/Service Pricing: Support Facilities (Space Facilities) -- Space Insurance -- Chapter 5. Relationship of Economics to Major Issues -- Commercial Development of Space: Government/Industry Relationship -- Economics of Strategic Planning -- Remote Sensing: The Inconsistency of U.S. Space Policy -- Engineering Design and Decision Making -- Resource Allocation in the Congress -- Economic Issues Facing the United States in International Space Activities -- Author Index for Volume 144.