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SFF Announces $25,000 First Prize for the NewSpace Business Plan Competition

by Space Frontier Press June 8, 2011 News

The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) announced today that additional prize money to be awarded to the top three businesses competing in the 2011 NewSpace Business Plan Competition. These generous prizes, totaling $32,500, will help launch paradigm-shifting NewSpace companies while the competition itself will provide all the finalists with practical guidance from investors and business professionals. The SFF will host the NewSpace Business Plan Competition during its NewSpace 2011 Conference and competition details can be found at www.newspacebpc.com. The conference will be held at the NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley on July 28-31. Register at newspace.spacefrontier.org.

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Ask Your Member of Congress to “Represent” Your Support of Commercial Space TODAY!

by Space Frontier Press May 17, 2011 Advocacy

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies has asked your Member of Congress for their input on what programs in NASA (and other agencies) should receive increased or decreased funding in FY2012. This gives you an opportunity to have your Representative support vital NASA initiatives like Commercial Crew and Space Technology.

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Make Magazine Helps Develop Space Science Kits for Education

by Space Frontier Foundation February 28, 2011 Enablers

Make Magazine, the leading do-it-yourself publication for technology hobbyists and experimenters, is partnering with Teachers in Space to help develop space science kits that high-school teachers can build and fly on suborbital and orbital flights.

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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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Agenda Released for Keep the Promise Event

by Space Frontier Press February 17, 2011 Advocacy

Last fall, Congress agreed to fund key NASA programs that are critical to America’s economic future. Sadly, they have not followed through on that promise. In fact, Congress is now looking at what to fund for 2012, but has yet to pass a budget for 2011. This is unacceptable. Members of the Space Frontier Foundation are headed to Washington on March 6-8, 2011 to urge Congress to “Keep the Promise” when it comes to supporting the new US commercial space industry.

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Space Supporters to Carry Message To Congress: “Keep Your Promise!”

by Space Frontier Press February 9, 2011 Advocacy

Members of the Space Frontier Foundation are headed to Washington on March 6-8, 2011 to urge Congress to “Keep the Promise” when it comes to supporting the new US commercial space industry. The group is inviting all supporters and friends of America’s space efforts to show up and speak up in defense of innovative budget saving initiatives like NASA’s Commercial Crew program, and warn Congress about the damage it will do if it does not act to support this critical new approach to space.

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Space for the People

by Space Frontier Press September 27, 2010 Advocacy

The Space Frontier Foundation and NewSpace community voice their support for the 2011 NASA budget put forth by the current administration and denounce the HR-5781 bill. Share “Space for the People” and support the need for a budget focused on innovation and new enterprise, not wasting money on failed projects.

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Action Alert – Help Kill HR 5781 NOW

by William Watson September 23, 2010 Advocacy

The Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) urges every commercial space supporter to take action immediately. Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will bring to a vote the NASA re-authorization act. Unfortunately, they have decided to continue the failed policy that is Constellation.

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SFF Endorses the 2010 CRASTE Conference

by Space Frontier Press September 20, 2010 Cheap Access to Space

The Commercial and Governmental Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange will be held October 25-28 at the NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, CA. The Space Frontier Foundation recognizes the importance of the conference’s focus on our nation’s investment in low-cost, reliable, and frequent access to space and encourages its members to attend. Register online now through September 24 and receive an early registration discount. This conference will continue an important dialogue between NASA and commercial space entrepreneurs concerning the options for reaching low earth orbit efficiently and economically in light of the space shuttle’s retirement.

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Teachers In Space and NASA to Cooperate on Teacher Development

by Space Frontier Press September 16, 2010 Enablers

The Teachers in Space program (TIS) has been selected by the NASA Education Office to create an innovative professional-development program for high school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers during the summer of 2011-12. The workshops, conducted under the K-12 Cooperative Agreement Notice, will focus on suborbital science, suborbital flight, space medicine, and human factors. To conduct these workshops, Teachers in Space has assembled a team that includes members from NASA, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Space Education Initiatives.

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