Advocates
The Advocates are the heart of the Space Frontier Foundation. Each year, at the Foundation’s annual business meeting (held in conjunction with our annual conference), the Advocates elect the Board of Directors for the following year. The newly elected Board then elects officers for the following year, including Executive Director, Treasurer, and Secretary. Our advocate coordinator is Bill Boland.
Accomplishments of Foundation Advocates
If you trace through two decades of NewSpace development, the Space Frontier Foundation Advocates have been in the thick of it every step of the way!
Whether event planner, CEO, radio talk show host, publisher, lawyer, evangelist, photographer, politico, engineer, pilot, spacecraft builder, policy wonk or serious professional volunteer the work of Space Frontier Foundation Advocates is a chronicle of NewSpace progress.
- Many people mark the flights of the Delta Clipper X as the beginning of NewSpace. One of us managed that program along with Pete Conrad.
- Advocates financed and negotiated the lease for the first commercial space station, Mir.
- The first TV commercial aboard the ISS was for Radio Shack. Advocates made that happen. They also arranged for the first pitch in the baseball World Series to be made on the International Space Station.
- Prospace, the citizen’s space lobby was formed by Advocates and is a direct spinoff of the Foundation’s successful March Storm project, the yearly Congressional blitz.
- Advocates are the definitive publishers of space books.
- One of us developed the rocket engine avionics for SpaceShipOne.
- Several of us are CEOs of leading NewSpace companies.
- One of us is a space poet.
The list goes on, people that proudly accepted invitations to become a Space Frontier Foundation Advocate, all achieving space in different ways. We are the face and future of NewSpace.
Space Frontier Foundation Advocates share a vision where the space frontier is open to everyone with human settlement as the overriding goal. This vision, which has guided us since our founding in 1988 now, thanks to the Augustine Report, is mainstream. Our vision has held steadfast. We see the space frontier opened by unleashing free enterprise. We link space settlement and the utilization of the rich resources of space as a path to the protection of our planet. And we believe that an open space frontier will offer prosperity to succeeding generations.
Throughout its over two decades of advocacy the Space Frontier Foundation has been influential because of the boldness of its ideas and the work of its Advocates.
By most indications it looks like a big change is coming; a corner is being turned. Free enterprise will begin to be unleashed. A new and dynamic chapter in opening the space frontier will begin. Space Frontier Foundation Advocates will continue to be in the thick of it.
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. 
