European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as he arrives at the Special European Council in Brussels on March 6, 2025. (Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images)
The Skydio X10D drone flies during a counter-uncrewed aerial systems training exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Bavaria, Germany, on February 13, 2025. (US Army photo)
Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese sailors stand next to a submarine rescue ship Hongzehu from the PLA Navy as it is docked on April 23, 2024, in Qingdao, China.(Kevin Frayer via Getty Images)
The Skydio X10D drone flies during a counter-uncrewed aerial systems training exercise at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Bavaria, Germany, on February 13, 2025. (US Army photo)
Sean Kelly was manager of public programming and special projects at Hudson Institute from 2017 to 2019.
Biography
Sean Kelly was manager of public programming and special projects at Hudson Institute from 2017 to 2019. Sean also authored pieces on space and foreign policy for several publications including Politico, The National Interest, and the Weekly Standard. Sean holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from Western Washington University.
With a rainbow serving as a backdrop in the sky, space shuttle Atlantis (foreground) sits on Launch Pad A and Endeavour on Launch Pad B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Stocktrek Images)
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018. (NASA via Getty Images)
NASA astronaut Ronald Garan attached to the robotic arm Canadarm2 moves a failed ammonia pump module from a storage platform on the ISS to the cargo bay of the space shuttle Atlantis during a planned spacewalk July 12, 2011. (NASA via Getty Images)
China launches Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing via Getty Images)
Long March 7 orbital launch vehicle carrying China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 on the launchpad in Wenchang, April 20, 2017 (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)