Whatever happened to Buzz Aldrin's ShareSpace Foundation?

[Kirsten]

Buzz Aldrin says on his website, "My ShareSpace Foundation will create new ways to share the space exploration experience democratically among all Americans and at the same time, stimulate private sector space activities through its research." He provides a link to the ShareSpace website at http://www.sharespace.org/ but this appears to be a website for the National Association of Broadcasters.

Does anyone have any information on the status of the ShareSpace Foundation? For example, does it still exist?

[HunterX17]

nobody cares about space. We will be on this rock forever fighting amongst each other for toys, oil, and who has the better religion.

[eschhman]

What kind of attitude is that, HunterX17? :)
I'm an Air Force-want-to-be and now am too old for getting in and have always thought it would be so neat to go out into space and see the handiwork of God's creation outside of our home planet. As far as religion, I see your point---that wars are fought over religion. That is terrible. Those that start them are in the wrong. See John 16:2. Is it over the matter of who to believe in? Jesus, who this time of year is what it's all about, said if you believe in God to believe in Him for He is the only way to God and eternal life----for the Jew, for the Muslim, for the Buddhist, for the atheist, even for the unborn-again devout Catholic!

So, I am all out for space tourism and am glad to see it beng developed by ones such as Buzz Aldrin, who I just happened to see in person yesterday in my own city of residence and who I tried to see up close two years ago in my home state of Ohio at the 100th Anniversary of Flight in Dayton. Does anyone have an update of Space Island Group?

[JediJosh]

Sharespace appears to actually be it's own website these days, but all it is is a link to a 2003 symposium on Space Exploration....

A pity I didnt know about that in 2003, sounds like it was an interesting symposium.

Anyone know if AviationWeek is hosting any of these symposiums anytime soon?


eschhman- I would suggest looking at Space Island Group's webpage for more info on them: http://www.spaceislandgroup.com/home.html

Very cool website, and seems to be 'modified' / updated very often, but I am not sure what they actually do besides encouraging RIT students to do research.

[aschultz]

The SIG guys sure do have a lot of neat pictures! Not so sure about their engineering though.

I think these guys have been around for a while. I remember seeing models at conferences many (10?) years ago of orbiting collections of shuttle external tanks. Their plan was to give the tanks a little extra kick after a shuttle launch and then refurbish them in orbit to be used as living space. Pretty sure these are the same guys. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.

[JediJosh]

The tank recycling plan has been around since the beggining of the Shuttle program... with MANY proposals and advocate groups...

Some more websites on it:

http://www.orbit6.com/et/ <=== BEST site :-)

http://www.permanent.com/p-extank.htm

http://www.space-frontier.org/Projects/ET/Cserep/et_re-use.htm

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/geode_commercial_space_production_facility.shtml