Space Frontier Foundation and NASA Announce $110,000 in NewSpace Business Plan Competition Prizes

by Space Frontier Press February 2, 2012 Enablers

The Space Frontier Foundation will host the annual NewSpace Business Plan Competition during its NewSpace 2012 Conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on July 26-28. The competition helps entrepreneurs creating startups and firms developing supporting, problem-solving and game-changing technologies in support of the NewSpace space industry. As many as 10 finalists will present their plans to a distinguished panel of judges, featuring venture capitalists, angel investors and business development leaders. They’ll receive professional feedback and exposure to the public, press and investor community. The winner will awarded a $100,000 Grand Prize funded by a grant from NASA Ames. This grant also funds a $10,000 Second Prize.

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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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Hoping for a Holiday in Space!

by Space Frontier Press December 21, 2011 Featured

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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Commercial Crew Development Defies Death by Sticking to Space Act Agreements.

by Space Frontier Press December 17, 2011 Cheap Access to Space

The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) congratulates NASA on the smart decision to continue to utilize Space Act Agreements (SAA) over the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). Many feared that the pressure to use the restrictive FAR contracts would be the death of the Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev). With this victory the program, and America’s ability to reach the ISS, gets a second chance. This positive evolution of how NASA works with vehicle contractors will boost the competitive development of multiple launch providers and the NewSpace economy. The goal of achieving low cost, reliable access to space is simply better for it.

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Help Change the Conversation about Space, Even Here in Fantasyland-on-the-Potomac

by Space Frontier Foundation November 17, 2011 Advocacy

The Space Frontier Foundation’s effectiveness at fighting for our vision inside the Beltway will depend on the financial support we receive from Foundationers like you. I can’t promise that if you contribute generously we will win every battle. But I can say that with your help, we can fight the most important battles, and advance our cause of a freer and more prosperous life for our children and grandchildren… a hopeful future we will earn by opening the space frontier, together.

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Learn and Launch for Less at NewSpace 2012

by Space Frontier Press November 14, 2011 Featured

Registration for the Space Frontier Foundation’s NewSpace 2012 Conference is now open! Take advantage of the low early bird registration prices to learn about the commercial space industry and launch your venture for less. The conference will be held July 26-28 at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. Register today at newspace.spacefrontier.org.

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Newt Gingrich calls Space Launch System “disgraceful” pork

by Space Frontier Foundation October 21, 2011 Featured

While at a Town Hall in Dallas Texas, Speaker Newt Gingrich talked about pork and the Senate Launch System

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Space Frontier Foundation Backs Congressional Letter Calling Foul on Space Launch System Contracts

by Space Frontier Foundation September 27, 2011 Featured

The Foundation voiced its strong support for a U.S. Congressional letter sent last week asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate possible violations of the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) in NASA’s plans for buying a new super-heavy lift launch vehicle. The Foundation urged the GAO to issue a “stay” on the project to prevent implementation of any contact modifications, extensions, or other actions …..

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Monster Rocket Will Eat America’s Space Program

by Ferris Valyn September 15, 2011 Advocacy

The Foundation is certain that much like Constellation before it, the Senate Launch System will never stay within its budget or schedule, and in the end will be cancelled. SLS will become the most cannibalistic program in NASA’s history, consuming innovative programs attempting to lower costs by using commercial firms to fly astronauts into space, new technologies that would make exploration more affordable, and of course the payloads the new rocket is supposed to carry.

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