Apollo

Jurvetson Gives a Truly Great Gift to SpaceX and it includes Gene Cernan

July 11, 2012

Imagine what it took for Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of the great Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to put together this gift: a picture of Musk’s Falcon launch signed by a host of Apollo astronauts. They’re congratulating him and the SpaceX team on their successes and wishing them well for the future. The signatures include Gene Cernan’s.

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Change is Coming to NASA Space Launch

March 19, 2010

Change is coming to the US space program. At last! Real, dramatic and tangible change in both its effect and the course it will create in this nation’s future in space. It is long past time for us to try something different, as what we have been doing in our human space program since Apollo has been a failure of epic proportions.

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The Kennedy Legacy in Space

December 18, 2009

When President Kennedy declared in 1962 that “We choose to go to the moon in this decade,” he could not possibly have known that our desire to recapture the lost glories of the Apollo years would put us in a holding pattern, repeating the same mistakes over and over, like a broken record, well into the 21st century. His speech was followed by seven years of breakthroughs—and 40 years of decline.

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Last Chance to Register Online for the NewSpace 2009 Conference

July 16, 2009

Your last chance to register online for the NewSpace 2009 Conference at NASA Ames (July 18-20) is fast approaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to mingle with NewSpace insiders, including Pete Worden of NASA Ames, Peter Diamandis of X PRIZE Foundation, Gwynne Shotwell of Space X, Dennis Stone of NASA COTS, and Ken Davidian of FAA/AST. [...]

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Space Frontier Foundation Announces NewSpace 2009 Silent Auction

July 12, 2009

Throughout the NewSpace 2009  Conference, the Space Frontier Foundation will be hosting a NewSpace Silent Auction & Raffle. Items for auction fall into two classifications: Gold and Blue. Gold items are unique and available only to our community and are in the silent auction format. “Bid registers” will be located near the item and bids [...]

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Speaker List Revealed for NewSpace 2009 Conference

July 1, 2009

The Space Frontier Foundation is proud to announce the list of speakers presenting at the NewSpace 2009 Conference. Industry leaders and visionaries will cover topics focusing on future space ventures on Saturday, incorporating the corporate side of the Newspace industry on Sunday, and envisioning our next giant leaps on Monday. The speakers will culminate the [...]

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SFF announces programming for NewSpace 2009 Conference at NASA Ames

May 25, 2009

The Space Frontier Foundation today announced that the program for its NewSpace 2009 conference is now available on the NewSpace 2009 website. Held at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, the conference programming will span Friday, July 17, through Monday, July 20. Friday, July 17: Space Elevator Day: Hosted by the Space Science [...]

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