When President Kennedy declared in 1962 that “We choose to go to the moon in this decade,” he could not possibly have known that our desire to recapture the lost glories of the Apollo years would p...
The Campaign to Open the Space Frontier is Ready for First Flight
For decades, the American space program has been held hostage by special interests who have kept us chained to planet Earth. Next ...
A "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies, enables or ac...
Legal and Economics Implications of Orbital Debris Removal [Slides]
In Response to:
DARPA Orbital Debris Removal (ODR) Request for Information
for Tactical Technology Office (TTO),
Defense Adva...
In Response to:
DARPA Orbital Debris Removal (ODR) Request for Information
for Tactical Technology Office (TTO),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The current legal regime creat...
The Space Frontier Foundation's 2009 submission to NASA for six new prizes to Centennial Challenges.
Project Website
http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/
It's been a couple of months since the Augustine Committee had the temerity to suggest that maybe, just maybe, we should leave a few things that have long been the sole province of government to th...
Citing Time magazine's selection of NASA's proposed Ares rockets "The Best Invention of the Year" based on a single purported "test flight" of the vehicle on October 28th, the Space Frontier Founda...
Elizabeth City State University, supported by the North Carolina Aerospace Alliance, North Carolina's Northeast Commission, and NASA Space Grant, will host North Carolina's first entrepreneurial sp...
2009 NewSpace Conference
Jim Crisafulli, Director Office of Aerospace Development - State of Hawaii Sunday, July 19th, 2009
The Journey Begins…
• Training for the Apollo astronauts on Mauna Kea, ...
Competitive Strategy in the Emerging Commercial Space Industry
Federal Aviation Administration
Ken Davidian
“Encourage, Facilitate & Promote” Program Lead Office of Commercial Space Transportatio...
NewSpace Policy:
Accelerating Development or Picking Winners? 1:00 pm– 2:00
pm
Moderator : Ken Panelists:
James Muncy Bruce Pittman David
Commercial Lunar Opportunities
2:20pm– 3:00pm
Moderator...
Government Policy Panel
Federal Aviation Administration
Ken Davidian
“Encourage, Facilitate & Promote” Program Lead Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) July 19, 2009
“A man learns b...
Orbital Debris: Should we be worried, and what is being done about it?
James E. Dunstan, Moderator Garvey Schubert Barer
Featured Speakers: Dennis Wingo, Joe Carroll, Tony DeTora
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Recent Event...
Lunar Trade Route
Gravity Well - 72%
Coast
Deorbit
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July 09 New Space
Lunar Transportation,Inc. Lunar Transportation Systems, Inc.
Two Way Highway to the Moon
•Uses a fleet of two new reusab...
Small vs. Large Debris Objects
The
problem with small objects
Any
trackable object, and many now too small to track, can cause unacceptable damage to most spacecraft are more small objects, ...
NewSpace Policy: Accelerating development or picking winners?
Doug Comstock
Director, Innovative Partnerships Program NewSpace 2009 Space Frontier Foundation 19 July 2009 NASA Ames Research Center...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Strategically Leveraging Early Commercial Services for Lunar Vision
NewSpace 2009
Robert M. Kelso Manager, Lunar Commercial Services July 2009
www.na...