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If his office does not resemble any other on campus, it is because Logsdon is unlike any other professor on campus. As the director of GW's Space Policy Institute, this expert on international space activities has studied and influenced some of America's most important decisions in the field of space exploration over the past 30 years.
Logsdon first became involved in the field in graduate school, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on America's decision to go to the moon. This paper was later published as one of Logsdon's most well-recognized books.
"I got a good launching pad," said Logsdon, adding that since his entry into the space policy arena, he has worked with every NASA administrator.
Logsdon began teaching at GW in 1970 and pushed for the 1987 founding of the Space Policy Institute. Over the course of his time teaching at the University, Logsdon has become recognized as one of the foremost experts in space policy.
"I was invited by European Commission and European Space Agency to keynote conferences on international space cooperation in February and April … And I'm about to go off to Japan for a conference," said Logsdon, outlining some of his major appointments in the recent past and near future.
Logsdon is not shy of his accomplishments and said he loves to share his knowledge with the wealth of reporters and media professionals that seek his advice every week.
"I am gratified that the media comes to us when they want an outside opinion," said Logsdon, who was most recently conducting interviews with Chinese journalists about their nation's nascent manned space program. "I think I've brought good visibility to GW through the Space Policy Institute."
