Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
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)
Manager, Public Programming & Special Projects
Sean Kelly
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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)
Manager, Public Programming & Special Projects
Sean Kelly
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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)
Manager, Public Programming & Special Projects
Christopher Sands & Sean Kelly
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4
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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)
Manager, Public Programming & Special Projects
Sean Kelly
Commentary
4
Min Read
Caption
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)