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About ASD

The Alliance for Space Development (ASD) is dedicated to influencing space policy toward the goals of space development and settlement. The founding, executive organizations are the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation.

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In 2015, the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF), the National Space Society (NSS), and nine other organizations announced the formation of the Alliance for Space Development (ASD) at a media event on February 25th in Washington, D.C.

 

Dana Rohrabacher (R) and Representative Chaka Fattah (D) co-hosted the press conference in the House Space Subcommittee hearing room in the Rayburn office building.

At press time, the Lifeboat Foundation, the Mars Foundation, the Mars Society, the Space Development Steering Committee, the Space Tourism Society, Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, Students on Capitol Hill, Tea Party in Space, and the Texas Space Alliance had joined NSS and SFF in the Alliance.

The alliance goals for 2024 were chiefly informed by the opportunity presented by the Commercial Space Act in the House of Representatives, which ASD worked to support in the second half of 2023:
 



Pass the Commercial Space Act (H.R. 6131) which ensures US space treaty compliance by “novel” commercial space activities.


Enable/Elevate the Office of Space Commerce


Study the commercial potential of Space Solar Power


Extend the “learning period” for human spaceflight


Improve Licensing of Space Launch and Elevate the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) to become a separate agency reporting directly to the Secretary of Transportation.
 



ASD also supports these secondary objectives, including the full budget request for Commercial LEO Destinations, the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope, NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate budget, and passage of the ORBITS Act (S. 447).

Our 2024 Objectives

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