Coalition for Space Exploration
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The Coalition for Space Exploration is an advocacy organization for space industry
Space industry
Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services. Owing to the prominence of the satellite-related activities, some sources use the term satellite industry interchangeably...

 businesses and non-profit groups supporting continued government investment in space exploration.

Members of the Public Affairs Team

  • Aerojet
    Aerojet
    Aerojet is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer based primarily in Rancho Cordova, California with divisions in Redmond, Washington, Orange, Gainesville and Camden, Arkansas. Aerojet is owned by GenCorp. They are the only US propulsion company that provides both solid rocket...

  • Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
  • Harris
    Harris
    Harris is the southern and more mountainous part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although not an island itself, Harris is often referred to as the Isle of Harris, which is the former postal county and the current post town for Royal Mail postcodes starting...

  • Honeywell
    Honeywell
    Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....

  • Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....

  • Northrop Grumman
    Northrop Grumman
    Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...

  • Oceaneering
  • Paragon
    Paragon
    A paragon is a large, flawless diamond. The title is now used figuratively to denote a model of excellence or perfection of any kind; one having no equal; a perfect embodiment of a concept.Paragon may also refer to:-Places:...

  • Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
    Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
    Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United States company that designs and produces rocket engines that use liquid propellants. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, headquartered in Canoga Park, California, is a division of Pratt & Whitney, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation...

    , Inc.
  • PTC
    PTC
    PTC may refer to:In education:* Pilot Training College, a JAR Flight Training Organisation fully approved for commercial pilot training....

  • United Space Alliance
    United Space Alliance
    United Space Alliance is a spaceflight operations company. USA is a joint venture which was established in August 1995 as a Limited Liability Company , equally owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and, employed approximately 8,800 people in Texas,...

  • The Boeing Company

Partners

  • Citizens for Space Exploration
  • National Space Society
    National Space Society
    The National Space Society is an international nonprofit 501, educational, and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy...

  • The Planetary Society

Board of Advisors

  • Crystal Bloemen – educator
  • Guion Bluford
    Guion Bluford
    Guion Stewart “Guy” Bluford, Jr. , is an engineer, retired Colonel from the United States Air Force and a former NASA Astronaut. He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992...

     – former shuttle astronaut
  • James Cameron
    James Cameron
    James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...

     - An Academy Award-winning director and filmmaker
  • Bob Crippen – former shuttle astronaut
  • Bradley Cheetham - Gen Y member
  • Roger Crouch – former shuttle astronaut
  • Frederick D. Gregory
    Frederick D. Gregory
    Frederick Drew Gregory is a former NASA astronaut and former NASA Deputy Administrator. He also served briefly as NASA Acting Administrator in early 2005, covering the period between the departure of Sean O'Keefe and the swearing in of Michael Griffin.-Personal data:Gregory was born on January 7,...

     - former shuttle astronaut
  • Jake Garn
    Jake Garn
    Edwin Jacob "Jake" Garn is an American politician, a member of the Republican Party, and served as a U.S. Senator representing Utah from 1974 to 1993...

     – first member of Congress to fly in space (former U.S. Senator from Utah)
  • Gerry Griffin – former NASA flight director
  • Bernard Harris – former Shuttle astronaut and first African American to walk in space
  • Steven Hawley
    Steven Hawley
    Steven Alan Hawley is a former NASA astronaut who flew on five spaceflights.-Personal data:Born December 12, 1951, in Ottawa, Kansas, but considers Salina, Kansas, to be his hometown. Currently married to the former Eileen M. Keegan of Redondo Beach, California, a public affairs officer at NASA...

     - former shuttle astronaut
  • Thomas David Jones
    Thomas David Jones
    Thomas David Jones is a former United States astronaut. He was selected to the astronaut corps in 1990 and completed four space shuttle flights before retiring in 2001. He flew on STS-59 and STS-68 in 1994, STS-80 in 1996 and STS-98 in 2001. His total mission time was 53 days 48 minutes...

     - former shuttle astronaut
  • Joseph Kerwin – former Skylab astronaut
  • Gene Kranz
    Gene Kranz
    Kranz's book, titled Failure Is Not an Option, published five years after the movie, stated, "...a creed that we all lived by: "Failure is not an option."" . The book has three index references for the phrase, but none of those give any indication of the phrase being apocryphal...

     – former Apollo flight director
  • Jeanne Kregle - educator
  • Nick Lampson
    Nick Lampson
    Nicholas Valentino 'Nick' Lampson is an American politician from the state of Texas and was a Congressman representing the 22nd Congressional District of Texas. He was defeated by Pete Olson on November 4, 2008 in his re-election bid....

     - former Congressman from Texas' 22nd Congressional District
  • Jim Lovell
    Jim Lovell
    James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts of the crew and mission...

     - former NASA Astronaut and commander of the Apollo 13 mission
  • Miles O'Brien
    Miles O'Brien (journalist)
    Miles O'Brien is a broadcast news journalist specializing in aviation, space and technology.-Early life:...

     - morning anchor and space correspondent for CNN
  • Damaris Sarria – Gen Y member
  • Paul Spudis
    Paul Spudis
    Paul D. Spudis is an American geologist and lunar scientist.In 1976 he earned a B.S. in geology at the Arizona State University. Following his graduation he performed an internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, during the Mars landing of that year. The following year he went to Brown University...

     - geologist and lunar scientist
  • Dave Weldon
    Dave Weldon
    David Joseph Weldon, is an American politician and physician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing .-Early life:...

    - former Congressman from Florida's 15th Congressional District

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