Letter from the Executive Director

Letter From the Executive Director #1.6

April 10, 2013

The weeks since the last installment of this publication have been busy ones for the Foundation. We have a number of initiatives in the works that we can’t tell you about right now, but some amazing things have happened with our projects. Teachers in Space is taking applications for their summer workshops. The deadline was [...]

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Letter From the Executive Director #1.5

February 22, 2013

After the hustle and bustle of an amazing two months, this February was a relatively quiet time for NewSpace. But behind the scenes at the Space Frontier Foundation we are finalizing exciting plans to expedite the exploration and development of space-based industries. I’d like to step back for just a moment as Executive Director and [...]

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Letter From the Executive Director #1.4

January 24, 2013

December and early January were big months for the Space Frontier Foundation and the NewSpace movement. The Overview Institute premiered a movie at Harvard University, both Teachers in Space and our Conference had major develoments, and both Bigelow and XCOR had major announcements. Our Teachers in Space project announced the winner of the Student Spaceflight [...]

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Letter from the Executive Director #1.3

December 4, 2012

This month, the Space Frontier Foundation was counting our blessings and they included a significant Space Frontier Foundation team presence at SpaceVision, the annual Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) student conference. This has always been a great conference for us to meet self-motivated, visionary student volunteers and this year was no [...]

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Letter from the Executive Director #1.2

November 2, 2012

The end of September and October was a terrific month. We have had some great progress and we are looking forward to the events at the end of the year. ISPCS ISPCS was this month in New Mexico and I and Gary Marx, one of our volunteers helping with strategic partnerships and development, attended. Gary [...]

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Letter from the Executive Director #1.1

September 26, 2012

This month, the Foundation made a number of great advances. Both political parties published their platforms this month, to the great disappointment of the Foundation. Both parties are punting on the issue, showing a lack of vision and courage. The Foundation issued a statement for each party’s platform and they have gotten coverage from some [...]

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