Space Frontier Foundation

Legislative Alert for Pro-space citizens – Action Required by Monday, March 19

by Space Frontier Foundation March 15, 2012 Advocacy

A call to action: NASA programs that open the frontier are under assault by members of Congress

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Friendship 7’s legacy is safe with Commercial Crew

by Space Frontier Foundation February 20, 2012 Advocacy

While celebrating the anniversary of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 flight, the Space Frontier Foundation also looks towards the future of human spaceflight, and sees a bright future.

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Note to Congress – Answer “Why Space?” before you open our pocket book

by Space Frontier Foundation February 17, 2012 Advocacy

With a budget increase in the Senate Launch System of $28.2 million, the various congressional reactions to the proposed NASA budget have provided a teachable moment for all of us

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Mitt Romney would have fired Mike Griffin

by Space Frontier Foundation January 27, 2012 Featured

Governor Romney’s space policy group includes someone he said he would have fired

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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich Proposes Space Settlement as National Goal

by Space Frontier Foundation January 26, 2012 Enablers

On January 25, at a campaign stop in Florida, speaker Gingrich laid out a vision of space settlement. Something that should excite all space supporters, and all Foundation advocates.

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SFF Recommends the 2012 Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference

by Space Frontier Foundation January 19, 2012 Cheap Access to Space

The Southwest Research Institute’s Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference brings together researchers from academia, industry and government to find dramatic solutions for reaching space. Held in Palo Alto, CA on February 27-29, 2012, this conference informs and listens to the suborbital community on how to increase opportunities for experimentation, education, market expansion and technology development. The Space Frontier Foundation recommends that those in our community looking to support and expand the usage of suborbital space register today. Advanced registration ends February 10th and is available at nsrc.swri.org.

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Hoping for a Holiday in Space!

by Space Frontier Foundation December 21, 2011 SFF News

This holiday please give a gift to our volunteers and yourself by donating to the Space Frontier Foundation. You’ll be supporting a future where we have to figure out how to get a Christmas tree to the moon. A future where all science teachers are expected to have experienced spaceflight, picking a spaceline ticket is done on Orbitz, and ‘asteroid miner’ is a common job description. So after hanging up your geeky space ornaments (we admit to having several), visit spacefrontier.org/donate.

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Donate Now for the Future of the Space Frontier Foundation!

by Space Frontier Foundation December 13, 2011 Enablers

If the Foundation is making a difference, it should be measurable and visible for all to see. We have the plan in place to do more, but we need your help to keep moving these projects forward. Please donate today if you want your kid to be taught by an astronaut teacher, to support the creation of new entrepreneurial space businesses, or to see pro-settlement legislation. The SFF can make it happen — so click the “Donate Now” tab above!

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Mars Science Laboratory – Product vs. Process

by Space Frontier Foundation December 7, 2011 Mars

Dear Mars Science Laboratory team,
Thank you!

In the middle of a completely absurd debate about how much U.S. taxpayer money should be put into the pockets of congressional donors in the name of not building government rockets that will not support the opening of space in any way, you are going exploring.

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Communicate Change, Not Just Static: Donate Now!

by Space Frontier Foundation November 23, 2011 Enablers

As recently as last week a major figure in the publishing world said to me that we in the Foundation should take credit for leading the change of the largest space program on Earth, and that although most people don’t know it, we are the group that has set the stage and made it happen. If you want to help us do something grand and important, if you want to know that you are not just sharing static and actually do something to give this life meaning, then click on that donation button, write that check. And the next time you hear about the latest rocketship that will carry you and your kids into space, you can smile and know you aren’t just another consumer of constant communication, you’re helping give them something to talk about. Tax-deductible donations can be made by clicking the “Donate Now” tab above.

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