fiction television program situated at an O’Neill-style space colony ).
This mixing of real-life space pioneers (such as DC-X ‘pilot’ Pete Conrad) with artistic visionaries began the Foundation’s long-planned campaign to use Hollywood and popular culture to help promote the frontier message. Delta Clipper-X team wins the “Vision to Reality” award.

The Foundation begins work on a concept that would eventually be called “Alpha Town.” The goal of Alpha Town is simple: align the space station initiative with the space-settlement movement, turning the station into an enabling technology and platform. Response to Alpha Town is positive from the beginning. Starting in the Spring 1997, NASA Administrator Dan Goldin, made the concepts of AlphaTown a central theme in several major speeches when he declared that NASA would privatize the station after construction was complete.