Paper Session III-A - Exploring and Using the Space Environment - A Different Approach

This paper describes some of the concerns that Space Frontier Operations, Inc. (SFO), has about space exploration and describes some of the initial results of studies being undertaken at SFO to further the exploration of space. These studies are preliminary and they are continuing. Exploration and use of the space environment has been stymied for many reasons. Chief among these reasons are governments, large corporations and lack of political willpower. This state of affairs, coupled with a genuine lack of knowledge by most people, politicians included, has led to the idea that space exploration is complicated, expensive, very risky and therefore best left to governments. Space exploration can be complicated, it is expensive and sometimes risky, but it is not best left to governments