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Moon Conference to Boost New Space Age ? Stellar Gathering of Experts, Innovators and Entrepreneurs Plan Moon, Mars and Beyond

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Los Angeles, CA, July 8, 2004 ? The agenda for the first and largest public Lunar settlement conference since President George W. Bush's announced goal of establishing an American Lunar Base was released today by the lead sponsor, the Space Frontier Foundation, a non-profit space policy organization. To be held July 16-18, 2004, at the Westin Casuarina Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, the fifth "Return to the Moon" (RTM V) conference and workshop will assemble a literal Who's Who of Lunar exploration innovators and entrepreneurs and feature presentations and discussions on many of the controversial issues raised by the president's speech in January.

NASA's Budget is No Prize! Space Frontier Foundation Calls for NASA to Greatly Expand "Centennial Challenges" Project

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Los Angeles, CA, June 14, 2004 ? As NASA's first Centennial Challenges workshop got underway at the Washington Hilton today, the Space Frontier Foundation praised the Centennial Challenges program, which would allocate up to $20 million in prizes to reward ?actual accomplishments rather than proposals? in space and aviation technologies. Unfortunately, the Foundation said, the rest of NASA's $16-billion budget request is no prize.

"We congratulate NASA for spending one-eighth of one percent of its budget on what it says will be actual accomplishments rather than proposals," said Foundation Founder Rick Tumlinson. "If this trend continues, we foresee a day that when NASA gets new technologies, it might spend one-quarter or even one-half of a percent on real, proven hardware, instead of paper studies and pork. Although we are glad some people of vision at the agency are trying to do the right thing, the project is too small, and its goals are too limited. Meanwhile, NASA will continue to pour billions into dead end studies and projects while not opening space to the people. As taxpayers, however, we think NASA can do better than that.?