Coalition for Space Exploration
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The Coalition for Space Exploration is a collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups whose mission is to educate and inform the public on the value and benefits of space exploration and to help ensure the United States will remain a leader in space, science and technology - key factors that will benefit every American, strengthen our nation’s economy and maintain our national security.
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[edit] Objectives
To help secure political support and budget resources for NASA and space exploration; to promote public understanding and support for America’s space exploration program and its benefits among all audiences, in particular the Generation Y sector, while inspiring young people about technologically related fields like science, math and engineering.
[edit] Members of the Public Affairs Team
- Aerojet
- Analytical Graphics, Inc.
- ATK Launch Systems
- Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
- Harris
- Honeywell
- Jacobs
- Lockheed Martin
- MEI Technologies, Inc.
- Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc.
- Space Florida
- United Space Alliance
- The Boeing Company
[edit] Partners
- Citizens for Space Exploration
- National Space Society
- Texas Space Grant Consortium
- The Planetary Society
[edit] Board of Advisors
- Crystal Bloemen – educator
- Guion Bluford – former shuttle astronaut
- James Cameron - An Academy Award-winning director and filmmaker
- Bob Crippen – former shuttle astronaut
- Bradley Cheetham - Gen Y member
- Roger Crouch – former shuttle astronaut
- Fred Gregory - former shuttle astronaut
- Jake Garn – first member of Congress to fly in space (former U.S. Senator from Utah)
- Gerry Griffin – former NASA flight director
- Bernard Harris – former Shuttle astronaut and first African American to walk in space
- Steven Hawley - former shuttle astronaut
- Dr. Tom Jones - former shuttle astronaut
- Joseph Kerwin – former Skylab astronaut
- Gene Kranz – former Apollo flight director
- Jeanne Kregle - educator
- Nick Lampson - former Congressman from Texas' 22nd Congressional District
- [James "Jim" Lovell, Jr. ]] - former NASA Astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission
- Miles O'Brien - morning anchor and space correspondent for CNN
- Damaris Sarria – Gen Y member
- Paul Spudis - geologist and lunar scientist
- Dave Weldon - former Congressman from Florida's 15th Congressional District
[edit] Structure
The Coalition for Space Exploration is an ad-hoc alliance comprised of a Public Affairs team and a Government Affairs team.
