{"id":6985,"date":"2014-03-19T04:56:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2014-03-19T04:56:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T04:56:02","slug":"the-space-settlement-enabling-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6985","title":{"rendered":"The space settlement enabling test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space Frontier Foundation<\/a> announces a tool to judge whether a space policy will encourage or delay space settlement:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/settlement-enabling-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Settlement Enabling Test<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Space Frontier Foundation Releases a<br \/>\nNew Metric for Crafting Space Policy<\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong>Silicon Valley, CA\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; The Space Frontier Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new tool, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/settlement-enabling-test\/\" target=\"_blank\">Settlement Enabling Test<\/a>. This tool acknowledges that our fundamental goal in space exploration is large scale space settlement, and provides a way to determine if our national space policy is delivering on the promise of space settlement. This expands on our previous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spacefrontier.org\/about-us\/frontier-enabling-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Frontier Enabling Test<\/a>\u00a0that has been with us since our founding.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, the Space Frontier Foundation and other organizations have been advocating for space settlement. Over the past few years, those efforts have paid off, with national policy moving towards space settlement. Some examples of this include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Vision for Space Exploration<\/strong>\u00a0stated &#8220;<em>The fundamental goal of this vision is to advance U.S. scientific, security, and economic interests through a robust space exploration program<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Marburger<\/strong>, presidential science adviser for President George W. Bush, said &#8220;<em>questions about the vision boil down to whether we want to incorporate the solar system in our economic sphere &#8230;. the question has been decided in the affirmative<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li><strong>President Obama<\/strong>\u00a0stated &#8220;<em>Our goal is the capacity for people to work and learn and operate and live safely beyond the Earth for extended periods of time, ultimately in ways that are more sustainable and even indefinite<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The fact that space settlement has shown up multiple times, at the highest level of power, without regard to political party, shows that people do see the value in space settlement<\/em>,&#8221; stated James Pura, President of the Space Frontier Foundation. &#8220;<em>But it&#8217;s not enough to have a goal &#8211; we need to formally proclaim it as our goal, and we need to develop a strategy that will achieve that goal. That is what the Settlement Enabling Test allows us to do.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Space Frontier Foundation carefully deconstructed what the conditions are that would show large-scale space settlement is happening. It developed metrics across multiple areas, such as societal values, ensuring sustainability of space, pro-settlement legal and regulatory policy, and creating value from space. Each category has a series of questions that allow the user to measure how settlement enabling a space policy is. The intention is to apply it to various space policies (from policies no longer in existence, to policies that are still in development), and determine whether a national policy is settlement enabling. The test, along with instructions used to apply the test, can be found on the Space Frontier Foundation&#8217;s website, under the heading Settlement Enabling Test.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacenews.com\/article\/opinion\/39893measuring-space-choices-by-our-real-purpose\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">In addition, an abbreviated version can be found in this week&#8217;s SpaceNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>It is our hope that as the US and other countries work to expand humanity&#8217;s use of space, elected officials and policy makers apply the Settlement Enabling Test to all of their country&#8217;s endeavors<\/em>,&#8221; said the Space Frontier Foundation&#8217;s Policy Director, Aaron Oesterle. &#8220;<em>This will help to improve polices, and ensure space settlement happens sooner, perhaps even in our lifetime<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Frontier Foundation announces a tool to judge whether a space policy will encourage or delay space settlement: The Settlement Enabling Test\u00a0\u00a0 The Space Frontier Foundation Releases a New Metric for Crafting Space Policy Silicon Valley, CA\u00a0&#8211; The Space Frontier Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new tool, the\u00a0Settlement Enabling Test. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6985\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The space settlement enabling test<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-space-policy","category-space-settlement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1OF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10000,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10000","url_meta":{"origin":6985,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Alliance for Space Development&#8221; formed by several space advocacy groups","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A message from the\u00a0National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF) about the \u00a0new\u00a0 Alliance for Space Development (ASD) collaboration of several organizations: National Space Society and Space Frontier Foundation Announce the Formation of the Alliance for Space Development The National Space Society (NSS) and the Space Frontier\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3665,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3665","url_meta":{"origin":6985,"position":1},"title":"There is another way &#8211; to space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This new video from the Space Frontier Foundation explains in a clear and straight-forward manner the affordable, incremental, commercial approach to space development that is the alternative to the unaffordable approach that NASA is currently going with its hyper-expensive super heavy lifter: http:\/\/youtu.be\/pRtNhYChFJw","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Space Policy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Space Policy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=7"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/pRtNhYChFJw\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9283,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9283","url_meta":{"origin":6985,"position":2},"title":"Kickstarter for &#8220;High Frontier&#8221; space colony sim nears goal","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The crowd-funding campaign in support of development of the\u00a0High Frontier\u00a0space settlement simulator\u00a0(see\u00a0earlier post here),\u00a0is just $1.5k short of\u00a0reaching its $10K goal by Nov.26th :\u00a0High Frontier by Joe Strout \u2014 Kickstarter. 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