SpaceFront is a community blog of, by, and for NewSpace, a web 2.0 revival of the Space Frontier Foundation’s original SpaceFront print newsletter. The views expressed in SpaceFront are not necessarily those of the Foundation or its Directors, but reflect the wide diversity of perspectives within the NewSpace community.

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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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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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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Hutchison and Shelby are Right!

by Space Frontier Foundation August 25, 2011 Advocacy

Study Endorses Senate Launch System as Affordable Near-Term Pork The Space Frontier Foundation today agreed with U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and Richard Shelby in their claim that Booz Allen Hamilton’s “Independent Cost Assessment (ICA)” of the Space Launch System shows that SLS “can be initiated within our currently constrained fiscal limitations” and therefore “halt [...]

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Congress Needs to Fund the Future

by Space Frontier Foundation July 8, 2011 Advocacy

Today the US Space Shuttle lifted off successfully for the last time. Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Science, and Justice threw quite a going away party by releasing its proposed budget for NASA for Fiscal Year 2012 (which begins this October 1st), and the news is not good. Because of strong pressure to reduce federal spending, the Subcommittee had several billion dollars less to divide up among various departments and agencies. So they had to cut NASA and some key programs that we space activists support.

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It’s Silly Season Again!

by Space Frontier Foundation March 30, 2011 Advocacy

Please remind your Representative & Senators they are not rocket scientists! Let NASA compete all the best ideas for a Space Launch System… Don’t mandate an unaffordable/unsustainable “Senate Launch System”!

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The Role of Government in a New American Space Agenda

by Rick Tumlinson February 23, 2011 Advocacy

The time for the bold is now, not just on the launch pads of New Space but within the government space community as well. It’s time for a New American Space Agenda, and so I, Rick Tumlinson, humbly offer five points of purpose and possibility for change in our national approach to opening space…

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