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Lifeboat Foundation helps launch the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).

Launch of the Alliance for Space Development

Minden, NV | Posted on March 1st, 2015

The Lifeboat Foundation is working with ten other
organizations including the National Space Society and the Space
Frontier Foundation to launch a new strategic alliance for space
development and commerce named the Alliance for Space Development (ASD).

"We are pushing very specific pieces of legislation," Charles Miller,
executive coordinator of ASD, said at a Feb. 25 press conference at the
2325 Rayburn House Office Building in Washington DC announcing the
formation of the group.

Perhaps the most ambitious part of the ASD agenda is a proposed "Cheap
Access to Space Act" that would offer $3.5 billion in government prizes
for the development of reusable launch vehicles. Those prizes include,
in a draft version of the bill provided by ASD, $1 billion to the first
fully reusable vehicle that can place at least one metric ton into orbit
and fly again a week later.

Charles said the proposed bill is based on the belief that economics,
and not technology, has inhibited the development of reusable launchers.
"We have, in most respects, the fundamental technology," he said. "We
think the number one issue is closing the business case." A large prize,
he said, would incentivize development of reusable launch vehicles.

ASD has already lined up a sponsor for another element of its agenda.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) has agreed to introduce a bill that
would amend the National Aeronautics and Space Act to make space
settlement and development an official national purpose. "That will be
introduced soon," Charles said.

Learn about the Alliance for Space Development at
http://allianceforspacedevelopment.org/

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technologies, including genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and
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