Here is a list of informative documents which should help you become a grassroots, political activist … and some possible direction for where to direct your activism for space exploration.
Searching for Other Worlds
by Bruce Moomaw
Durable one-celled life may be very common in the Universe. Given the vast number of stars within a few thousand light-years of us, it’s very possible that our technology may allow us to identify planets with life.
Action to Save Humanity
by Leon Neihouse
The world has a very real asteroid-comet impact problem. Deep reflection reveals that a solution to this problem for all members of the human race is technically possible with no scientific breakthroughs required for its implementation.
Investing in Technology to End Inflation
by J. David Baxter, USA president
A tactical look at how to approach space exploration, weighing benefits against the costs, and discussing how to win public support through everyone’s wallets — where they feel it most.
USAF Colonel Offers National Space Strategy
by Lt. Col. Timothy K. Roberts, USAF
A strategic look at how to approach space exploration, weighing benefits against the costs, and discussing how to win public support.
How NSS Can Implement a National Space Strategy
by Lt. Col. Timothy K. Roberts, USAF
A strategic look at how NSS can implement Col. Roberts’ national space strategy.
Space Settlement Required for Humanity’s Survival
by Leon Neihouse, president, Alpha Survival Foundation
A call to arms for space exploration to avoid the death blow from a comet or asteroid similar to the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
How Citizens Can Pursue Practical, Potent, Grassroots Political Action – Net-Based, Computer-Aided
by Jim Warren
This details how individuals can affect powerful, effective political action. This only works for positions that have broad public support, though usually among disorganized and geographically scattered citizens.
Research Bills in Congress
Research bills in Congress using this search engine at the Library of Congress. Search by bill number or word/phrase.
Project: Vote Smart
Project: Vote Smart began as a simple research project in 1990. This site provides the most crucial tool to citizens in a democracy: abundant, relevant information on those who govern us, or wish to replace those who already do. And it’s free.
Space Frontier Foundation
The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible. Their goals include protecting the Earth’s fragile biosphere and creating a freer and more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. Their purpose is to unleash the power of free enterprise and lead a united humanity permanently into the Solar System.
NASA Student Involvement Brochure
The NASA Student Involvement Program is an innovative educational competition providing opportunities for students and their teachers in grades K-12 to expand their knowledge of science, math, technology, and geography.
CATO Institute
Founded in 1977, the Cato Institute is a nonpartisan public policy research foundation headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Institute is named for Cato’s Letters, libertarian pamphlets that helped lay the philosophical foundation for the American Revolution. The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of more options that are consistent with the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.