Keith’s 17 Jun note: Have a look at the speakers at the upcoming Space Frontier Foundation New Space Conference. This organization claims to be at the forefront of space exploration. If so then the future will be run by males currently in their 50s. “New” Space? looks more like “old” space to me. What about everyone else? Keith’s 24 July update: They have added a little more diversity to their […]
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Formulating Space Policy While Looking Through A Straw “The Space Frontier Foundation believes that space settlement is the real reason to have a space program, and therefore we insist on measuring every policy or project against that purpose … … A lot of people are perfectly content on using ever more powerful telescopes and robotics to explore the universe – and maybe sending people – later. And these perfectly rational […]
The Space Frontier Foundation Announces 2013’s NewSpace Business Plan Competition Prizes, SpaceRef Business ‘With $135,000 in prizes, more industry support than ever before, and a new location and date, the Space Frontier Foundation today announced the details of the largest, richest and most exciting NewSpace Business Plan Competition to date. – $100,000 Grand prize sponsored by NASA – $25,000 2nd prize sponsored by ATK – $5,000 3rd prize sponsored by […]
NASA Announces Awards for 2012 Space Frontier Business Plan Competition “NASA’s Ames Research Center, in conjunction with NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologists Emerging Space Office, is continuing its support for the Space Frontier Foundations annual Business Plan Competition by funding this years awards totaling $110,000. The Space Frontier Foundation Business Plan Competition will be held during a three-day event at NASA Ames in July. The NASA supported Emerging Space […]
Keith’s note: The NewSpace 2011 conference is underway at NASA ARC. You can follow updates via Twitter here.
Keith’s 15 Nov. note: Apparently the Space Frontier Foundation plans to create their own version of “March Storm” – a visit by pro-space advocates to lobby on Capitol Hill. “March Storm” has been conducted for a number of years by another organization, Prospace. Well, Prospace is not too happy about Space Fronter Foundation’s usurping of their turf and has fired back with a press release. To be quite honest, I […]
NewSpace Is Under Attack, Space Frontier Foundation “NewSpace is under attack; and, we urgently need your help to fight back! Two weeks ago former astronaut and associate administrator, Scott “Doc” Horowitz, apparently taking a page from Dan Brown’s DECEPTION POINT, seemed to find a hidden political conspiracy by “a few people in the administration who want to kill Ares I and put all the money in commercial”. It’s entirely a […]