Mind the Gap
By working with America’s commercial industry, NASA can start launching human beings to orbit as early as 2011 or 2012 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. And by avoiding developing and perfecting a new, single-purpose rocket to launch Orion, NASA can accelerate other elements of Constellation and send humans beyond Low Earth Orbit that much sooner. This will create more space jobs across America, more overall economic growth, and stronger nationwide public support for America’s human spaceflight efforts. This is real progress.
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Background Documents
- Mind the Gap Presentation: Presentation given by Space Frontier Foundation co-founder Jim Muncy at the Space Access Conference, April 2009.
- Mind the Gap Reference White Paper
We are transforming space from a government- owned bureaucratic program into a dynamic and inclusive frontier open to people. We are determined to convert the image held by many young people that the future will be worse than the present, and we reject the idea that the world's greatest moments are in its past. 
