{"id":94508,"date":"2019-08-06T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-stars-are-far-getting-there-requires-time-tech-and-public-advocacy"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:02:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:02:15","slug":"the-stars-are-far-getting-there-requires-time-tech-and-public-advocacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-stars-are-far-getting-there-requires-time-tech-and-public-advocacy","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Are Far: Getting There Requires Time, Tech And Public Advocacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-stars-are-far-getting-there-requires-time-tech-and-public-advocacy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My regular readers appreciate the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gregautry\/2017\/04\/01\/the-next-economic-revolution-just-relaunched-congratulate-spacex-thank-nasa\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gregautry\/2017\/04\/01\/the-next-economic-revolution-just-relaunched-congratulate-spacex-thank-nasa\/\">NASA is partnering<\/a> with a number of commercial space businesses to permanently expand the human frontier into cis-Lunar space. While $20 billion in federal funding drives NASA\u2019s amazing programs, the agency doesn\u2019t get that money without strong public support. NASA has also long been supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/space.nss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/space.nss.org\/\">National Space Society<\/a>, a group founded by Werner von Braun. I\u2019m proud to represent NSS as their Vice President of Space Development and to have chaired their <a href=\"http:\/\/isdc2019.nss.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: http:\/\/isdc2019.nss.org\/\">International Space Development Conference<\/a> this year. I\u2019m also a huge fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/moonvillageassociation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/moonvillageassociation.org\/\">Moon Village Association<\/a>, which is helping to pave an international path for lunar settlement. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.usc.edu\/sccsi\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: http:\/\/www.marshall.usc.edu\/sccsi\">Southern California Commercial Spaceflight Initiative<\/a>, which I direct at USC, hosted both those groups in a fantastic event last year. I\u2019m excited to note that we will bring in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/www.marssociety.org\/\">Mars Society<\/a> this fall. That organization, founded by Robert Zubrin, leads the push for our next step, colonizing the Red Planet. You may however, be less familiar with the small group of aspirational space visionaries already working on conquering the stars, or with <a href=\"https:\/\/tauzero.aero\/who-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink: https:\/\/tauzero.aero\/who-we-are\/\">Tau Zero<\/a>, the foundation dedicated to achieving that most audacious goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My regular readers appreciate the fact that NASA is partnering with a number of commercial space businesses to permanently expand the human frontier into cis-Lunar space. While $20 billion in federal funding drives NASA\u2019s amazing programs, the agency doesn\u2019t get that money without strong public support. NASA has also long been supported by the National [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}