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This is an ongoing revision of the Wikipedia page for the Space Frontier Foundation. Intention is to work with involved individuals to fully document the history of the event and allow them to view the work as it progresses.
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Revision as of 18:00, 22 June 2015

This is an ongoing revision of the Wikipedia page for the Space Frontier Foundation. Intention is to work with involved individuals to fully document the history of the event and allow them to view the work as it progresses.

Space Frontier Foundation
Founded1988
Founder
Rick Tumlinson
Bob Werb
James A. M. Muncy
TypeSpace advocacy, 501(c)3, Education
Area served
Worldwide
MethodAdvocate driven projects enabling the growth of the NewSpace community
Key people
Board of Directors
ChairmanJeff Feige
MemberNicole Jordan
MemberAaron Oesterle
MemberSara Jennings
MemberMeagan Crawford
MemberGary Oleson
MemberRebecca Zgorski
Other Officers
TreasurerPaul Fuller
Staff
PresidentJames Pura
Vice PresidentJames Tumber
Websitespacefrontier.org

The Space Frontier Foundation is an American space advocacy nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, initially created to promote increased interest in space settlement as well as fostering involvement and collaboration in the exploration and development of space between the private sector and government. The organization also promotes education in the sciences and increases awareness of notable work in the space sector through its hosting of the annual NewSpace Conference, the NewSpace Business Plan Competition, and the NewSpace Awards Gala. It is a member of the Independent Charities of America and frequently meets with elected officials to advise on the regulation of new and emerging industries related to space settlement. Its advocate members design and lead a collection of projects with goals that align to the organization's goals as described by its credo.

The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible.

Our goals include protecting the Earth’s fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space.

Our purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System.[1]

History

The Foundation was founded in 1988 by space activists led by Rick Tumlinson, Bob Werb and Jim Muncy who felt that: "it was technically possible to realize their shared vision of large-scale...settlement of the inner solar system... [but] they knew this was not happening (and couldn't happen) under the status-quo centrally planned and exclusive U.S. government space program."[2][3][4][5]

In 2005, the Foundation's major donor, Walt Anderson, was arrested for tax evasion. Anderson was sentenced to Federal prison in the largest tax-evasion case in US history. The Foundation continues to maintain close ties with Anderson. The documentary film, Orphans of Apollo, profiles Walt Anderson and the efforts to keep the Russian Mir space station alive through the MirCorp project.[6] Following his arrest in February, 2005, Walter Anderson remained an advisor to the Foundation until July, 2005.[7] Anderson was released from prison in 2012. On December 29, the Space Frontier Foundation held a Walt Anderson Welcome Back party in Mclean, Virginia.[8] In July 2013, Anderson appeared at the SFF's annual NewSpace Conference, where he was publicly praised by SFF founder Rick Tumlinson.

Since 2005 the Foundation has relied heavily on NASA funding including a recent $110,000 award for business competition. Thomas Olson appeared on The Space Show to promote the competition. The competition takes place during the Foundation's New-Space 12 conference, which is sponsored by NASA.[9]

The Foundation supported the George W. Bush Administration's Vision for Space Exploration. In March, 2005, the Foundation praised the selection of Dr. Michael Griffin as the next administrator of NASA. A press release said "Mike Griffin will be a good captain for NASA." Bob Werb, the Foundation Chairman, said "Mike Griffin knows more about space and capitalism than the last three administrators combined. Vision-killing bureaucrats inside and outside of government should be trembling in their boots." Richard Tumlinson said, "This bodes well for the emerging New Space industry."[10]

Policies and Activities

In recent years, the Space Frontier Foundation has been supportive of various private sector efforts such as the Ansari X Prize, the SpaceShipOne project, and entrepreneur Robert Bigelow's plans to build a space hotel. The Foundation has been critical of the U.S. government's efforts in space, particularly those of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. For example, the Foundation has criticized NASA's Space Shuttle and Ares I, claiming that the shuttle's work could be better done by private sector companies. However, the Foundation has supported some recent NASA efforts, such as NASA's Centennial Challenges prize program for stimulating private-sector innovation and the new NASA direction of canceling Constellation in favor of technology development and supporting commercial companies.

The Foundation’s current strategic focus is to enable the growth of the NewSpace community. The Foundation's Board of Directors has endorsed the following objectives:

  • The Space Frontier Foundation's mission is to open the space frontier to permanent human settlement;
  • An open frontier can only be achieved by unleashing the power of free enterprise;
  • Government’s role in unleashing the power of free enterprise is critical and best accomplished by adopting the proven frontier paradigm of catalyzing the private sector;
  • All parts of all governments must embrace and fully utilize the potential of the emerging NewSpace Industry, and;
  • Regarding NASA, the near-term focus of the Foundation is on maximizing the market share of goods and services that the NewSpace industry is permitted to capture.
Advocate & Membership Coordination
Coordinators
AdvocatesJames Pura
Regional - CanadaEva-Jane Lark
Regional - AsiaMisuzu Onuki
Website Management
Brian Young

Affiliations

The Foundation is a founding executive member of the Alliance for Space Development.[11]

Membership

The Foundation's membership is composed of volunteers who typically fall into one of two groups. The regular members are those who provide a large amount of the volunteer work necessary to operate the projects that support the conferences and many other less obvious processes associated with a corporate office. Regular members donate time and money as they can in accordance with other demands upon them. Advocate members are those who are invited to step to the next level and help run the projects, start new ones, and fund the Foundation's activities. Advocates are those who have demonstrated a high degree of understanding and commitment to the Foundation's goals along with a track record of action toward these goals. Advocates are asked to donate more time and money on a regular basis and are the voting members that decide elections for the Foundation's Board of Directors.

Project Managers
NewSpace Business Plan CompetitionThomas A Olson
NewSpace ConferenceHannah Kerner
Teachers in SpaceElizabeth Kennick
Political Action & StrategyAaron Oesterle
NewSpace NewsCurtis Iwata

Projects

Projects are the primary means by which the Foundation acts in support of its goals. Projects are advocate managed activities with their own objectives, budgets, and volunteer support teams. Each project pursues what its members think they can accomplish using the skills they have. Advocates working each project assume the responsibility for keeping them aligned with Foundation objectives as best they can. This mostly decentralized approach to action is intentional and a core tradition of the Foundation.

NewSpace Conference

Three-day event that focuses on the current, near term, and future potential and challenges of the emerging commercial space industry.

NewSpace Awards Gala

Dubbed “The Academy Awards of Space” this is the black-tie awards gala that celebrates the leaders and paradigm changers of the space industry.

NewSpace Business Plan Competition

Helping entrepreneurs create NewSpace start-ups and firms that develop supporting, problem-solving, and game-changing technologies in support of the NewSpace industry.

Student Business Plan Competition

Held in partnership with the Students for the Exploration & Development of Space (SEDS), this project helps college students take their bright entrepreneurial ideas and turn them into real space companies through a competition for real cash prizes.

March Storm

Every March, Space Frontier Foundation & National Space Society jointly lead a grassroots Congressional campaign to brief 200-250 representatives on the issues that matter most to the emerging commercial space industry & the greater space settlement movement.

NewSpace News

All the latest news on the movements of the NewSpace industry, sent directly to your email inbox monthly via an email & online newsletter.

The Policy Beat

Our bi-weekly newsletter giving you the latest updates in space politics and DC happenings.

High Frontier Book Marketing Project

Honoring the never-ending promise SFF made back in 1989, this project is dedicated to disseminating the vision of Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill as described in the book The High Frontier. We remain committed to keeping this important book available indefinitely.

Completed Projects

Past projects include The Watch, an asteroid and comet detection and research project, Permission to Dream, connecting students around the world through the wonder of space and astronomy, sponsorship of conferences, the Space Settlement Project in marketing space to the general public, and Teachers in Space, a program to offer American teachers rides on future sub-orbital spaceflight launches.[12][13]

  • Teachers In Space
  • The High Frontier (1988-2013)
  • The Overview Institute (2007-2012)
  • Space Investment Summit (2005-2011)
  • We-Are-Space Video Competition (2011)
  • Space Ventures (2008-2011)
  • Space Settlement
  • The Cosmos Review (2008-2011)
  • Mind the Gap (2008-2011)
  • Space Solar Power (2001-2010)
  • VidVision/SpaceContest
  • External Tanks (2007-2008)
  • The Watch
  • Mars
  • Return to the Moon
  • NewSpace Economic Development
  • Space Settlement Project
  • Permission to Dream
  • Keep Mir Alive
  • $250,000 CATS Prize Project
  • Frontier Files


Furthermore, the Foundation hosts its annual NewSpace conference every year in July, which enables NewSpace leaders to meet and collaborate regarding the future of the movement.

See also

References

  1. ^ Space Frontier Foundation Credo
  2. ^ Space Frontier Foundation web page
  3. ^ Second Annual NewSpace Student Business Plan Competition On Tap Moon and Back, 2012
  4. ^ US’s Commercial Spaceflight Bargain | Space Frontier Foundation, The NewSpace Daily August 7, 2012
  5. ^ NewSpace Business Plan competition winners 2012
  6. ^ Foust, Jeff (July 28, 2008). "Preview: Orphans of Apollo". The Space Review. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
  7. ^ Foundation board member Thomas Olson maintained a website, Justice for Walt, seeking donations to secure Anderson's release. Justice for Walt stated, "Walt Anderson has been a major patron of the International Space University, has been one of the major supporters of Space Frontier Foundation, and served on both organization's Board of Directors." Olson was elected an Advocate of the Space Frontier Foundation in 2003. "Space Frontier Foundation"
  8. ^ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=42789
  9. ^ "The Space Show"
  10. ^ "Mike Griffin Will Be a Good Captain for NASA – White House Choice for Space Agency Administrator Gives Hope for Moon/Mars Effort"
  11. ^ ASD Members, Alliance for Space Development, retrieved March 4, 2015
  12. ^ Astronaut Teachers Inspire Next Generation CNN - Sept. 26, 2008
  13. ^ Teachers in space MSNBC, 20 Sept. 2006

External links

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