Change is Coming to NASA Space Launch

by Rick Tumlinson March 19, 2010 Advocacy

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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Ares I: A Pass-Fail Test for Barack Obama

by Space Frontier Foundation January 23, 2010 Advocacy

The case against Ares I is overwhelming. It is overpriced, unnecessary, competes directly with private spaceflight providers and will take so long to develop that it has already created a several years long “gap” in US crewed access to space. The commercial alternatives are based on well-tested, mature systems currently used to launch U.S. military, scientific, and commercial satellites. Adapting these rockets to carry people is cheaper, faster and better.

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Let Private Firms Run Taxis, Panel Said

by William Watson August 1, 2009 Launch Vehicles & CATS

Panel pushes for NASA to let the private sector take over space tourism in order to push the development of a private space industry and allow NASA to pursue other endeavors. Let Private Firms Run Taxis, Panel Said

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Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goals

by William Watson August 1, 2009 Newspace News

A panel met to discuss the future direction of NASA, pushing for deep space exploration instead of Moon or Mars landings as the next goal. Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goals

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Space Frontier Foundation Endorses Space Investment Summit 6

by William Watson May 8, 2009 SFF Partner News

Fellow Space Frontier Foundationers & Friends, The Space Investment Summit Coalition is proud to showcase business opportunities arising from the dynamic interplay between the growing hospitality/tourism/entertainment industries and advances in space-related commerce. Entrepreneurial efforts of whatever kind will no doubt benefit from this development–in Florida and around the world. ~ Paul A. Eckert, Space Frontier [...]

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