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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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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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