Hyuong Joon An is an associate research fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Korea. He received his M.S. in the philosophy of science at Seoul National University and Ph.D. in the history of technology at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. An also worked as a science journalist for Donga Science for years and took charge of the institutional evaluation for government-funded research institutes at the Korea Research Council for Industrial Science & Technology. Currently, he is working on various space policy research such as the New Space industry, space exploration & international cooperation, and so on.