Space Exploration Alliance

Space Exploration Organization

On June 3, 2004, thirteen United States space advocacy groups, industry associations and space policy organizations formed an umbrella organization known as the Space Exploration Alliance (SEA). Its primary purpose is to support the White House's plan to refocus NASA's human space activities toward exploration beyond low Earth orbit.[1]

Their initial effort, officially known as the Vision for Space Exploration (VSE), was announced on January 15, 2004 by President George W. Bush at NASA Headquarters. The VSE includes plans for a return to the Moon by U.S. astronauts with the intent of establishing a permanent lunar base before follow-on efforts are made to move on to Mars and beyond.[2]

The organizations involved in supporting the Space Exploration Alliance include:

Collectively these groups total almost one million Americans as members or as employees of member companies.[citation needed]

History

The first goal of the SEA was to work toward receiving broad Congressional support for the new national Vision for Space Exploration outside low Earth orbit, which the SEA refers to as "Moon, Mars and Beyond". The SEA began its efforts by working together on a campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. that was held from July 11 to July 13, 2004.

Thousands of signed petitions from NSS members to their representatives and senators were presented during the congressional visits. They were able to secure first-year funding for the Vision for Space Exploration initiative.[citation needed]

A second campaign was held on May 17 through May 19, 2005 in conjunction with the National Space Society's annual International Space Development Conference.

In a press release issued on October 15, 2005, the Space Frontier Foundation announced its intent to leave the Alliance, citing "philosophical differences" and an unwillingness to become "a fan club for a status quo that has failed so miserably time after time in our nation's quest for space."[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ Alliance, Space Exploration. "Space Exploration Alliance". Space Exploration Alliance. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20041025212733/http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/55583main_vision_space_exploration2.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-10-25. Retrieved 2024-01-11. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

  • Official website
  • v
  • t
  • e
Space racesChinese
space program
ESA Science Programme
Horizon 2000 (1985–1995)
Horizon 2000 Plus (1995–2015)
Cosmic Vision (2015–2025)
EU Space ProgrammeOther European
initiatives and bodiesIndian space policyBritish
space programmeUS space policy
Truman
space policy
Eisenhower
space policy
Kennedy
space policy
Johnson
space policy
Nixon
space policy
Ford
space policy
Carter
space policy
Reagan
space policy
George H. W. Bush
space policy
Clinton
space policy
George W. Bush
space policy
Obama
space policy
Trump
space policy
USSR and Russia
Soviet
space
program
Stalin
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Gorbachev
  • Mir (1986–2001)
Roscosmos
Yeltsin
Medvedev
Putin
Other policiesUnited NationsOther intergovernmental
or inter-agency bodiesSpace law
Commercial useMilitarisation
Space forces,
units and formations
Space warfare
Space advocacy
  • v
  • t
  • e
Africa
Pan-African
and Pan-Arab
National
Americas
North America
Latin America
and the Caribbean
Asia
Pan-Asian
Central Asia
East Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Southwest Asia
Europe
Pan-European
EU and EEA
Other
Oceania
World
Former