NewSpace News - Issue No.134

Mining & Minerals - Evaluations / Off-World Exploration, Mining, & Technology

Date posted: 06/15/16

The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Their goals include protecting the Earth fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Their purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System. They are transforming the space industry into a dynamic and inclusive frontier open to free enterprise. They are determined to convert the image held by many young people that the future will be worse than the present, and They reject the idea that the world greatest moments are in its past. Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation is an organization committed to realizing the vision of a greatly expanded and permanent human presence in space. Space alone offers the resources necessary to ensure the survival and prosperity of our species for numerous generations to come. To realize this vision, the Foundation is fundamentally transforming the conception of space into a widely accessible frontier, ripe with opportunity. Through conferences, speakers, policy papers, awards and prizes, and nationally recognized projects, the Space Frontier Foundation is actively advancing the cause of newspace, the term which has come to represent space infused with the spirit of entrepreneurialism and the free market, hence NewSpace. The Space Frontier Foundation is composed of a diverse, multinational array of space activists, expert scientists and engineers, media and political professionals, entrepreneurs, and passionate citizens.