Spaceship Earth Grants

Spaceship Earth Grants
Public-benefit corporation
Industry private spaceflight and philanthropic grants
Founded San Diego, California, U.S. (July 9, 2014 (2014-07-09))
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
Services
Parent Star Harbor Space Training Academy
Website spaceshipearthgrants.com

Spaceship Earth Grants (SEG) is a public benefit corporation whose mission is to make space more accessible through human spaceflight and parabolic flight awards to individual applicants. SEG also awards humanitarian and environmental technology grants to individuals and organizations judged likely to make a positive impact on planet Earth.[1][2]

Administration

The organization's leadership includes two former NASA astronauts, SEG president Leland Melvin and vice president Ron Garan.[1] Astrophysicist Maraia Hoffman and writer Frank White also serve as vice presidents and board members of the organization.[3][4]

The SEG Council (judges panel) includes Nathan Fletcher, Ron Garan, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Mat Kaplan, Leland Melvin, Wasfia Nazreen, Bill Nye, Simon Sinek, Frank White, and other individuals who share the corporation's mission.[1][3][5]

Initiatives

Spaceflight awards

Individuals pay an application fee and submit an application to be considered for a sub-orbital spaceflight or weightless/parabolic flight. The application fee varies according to the relative wealth of the applicant's home nation. Winners have their choice of currently available spacecraft providers at the time of award announcement.[6][7] Spaceflight training will be provided to the winners by Star Harbor Space Training Academy.[1][2][8]

The odds of being selected for a grant to fly to space will vary depending on the number of applications received, though it will be no higher than 1:50,000. Unlike other crowdfunded spaceflight awards like Mars One, as more applications are received, SEG will increase the award rate for spaceflight grants[2] to as high as 1:25,000.[1][9] Currently, the odds of having been to space are approximately 1 in 12,928,400.[10]

Application fee structure

Application fee[3] (US $) Countries
$90 Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Monaco, Norway, Qatar, San Marino, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
$80 Andorra, Austria, Belgium, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Arab Emirates
$60 Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Equatorial Guinea, French Polynesia, Greece, Malta, Netherlands Antilles, Oman, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, South Korea, Turks and Caicos Islands
$50 Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Croatia, Estonia, Gabon, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Malaysia, Montserrat, Nauru, Poland, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
$40 Azerbaijan, Belarus, Botswana, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Iran, Lebanon, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Palau, Panama, Peru, Romania, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, Suriname, Turkey, Turkmenistan, World
$30 Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Belize, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Marshall Islands, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Republic of the Congo, Republic of Macedonia, Samoa, Serbia, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine, Swaziland, Syria, Thailand, Tonga, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Vanuatu
$20 Burma, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Ghana, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lesotho, Mauritania, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Sudan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia
$15 Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, North Korea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe

Grants

Grants are awarded to fund, support, and move forward organizations and projects that make a positive impact on planet Earth,[1][11] including: projects or organizations making a significant improvement in the health of the environment, technologies that improve the quality of life for humanity, S.T.E.A.M. educational programs, and humanitarian efforts that are making a difference in the lives of people in the world.[8][6]

Initial grants will be made to partner organizations: Fragile Oasis, The Overview Institute, The Planetary Society, and Project Nominate.[12][13][6] Additional grants will be rewarded after individual spaceflight award winners have been selected in April 2015.[12]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Apply to fly: Astronaut-led group launches contest to send public to space". collectSPACE. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  2. 1 2 3 "Spaceship Earth Grants (SEG) opens crowdfunding spaceflight sontest". HobbySpace. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  3. 1 2 3 "Spaceship Earth Grants Launches Global Spaceflight Contest". MarketWired. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  4. ↑ "Enter Global Spaceflight Contest – Organization wants to send Civilians like You into Space". NewStaar Media. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  5. ↑ "Spaceship Earth Grants Is Handing Out Civilian Trips to Space". The Mary Sue. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  6. 1 2 3 "I Want to Go to Space: I’m Sending You Instead". GeekDad. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  7. ↑ "How I Fell Out of Love with Space Tourism". New Republic. 2014-10-06.
  8. 1 2 "The Space Show, Broadcast 2328 (Special Edition)". The Space Show. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  9. ↑ "New Project Will Send 1 of Every 50,000 Applicants to Space". International Business Times. Retrieved 2014-10-06.
  10. ↑ "New project aims to send 1 of every 50,000 applicants to space". Times of India. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
  11. ↑ "Spaceship Earth Grants Launches Global Spaceflight Contest". SpaceRef. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  12. 1 2 "Spaceship Earth Grants Launches Global Crowdfunding Spaceflight Contest". Parabolic Arc. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  13. ↑ "Could You Win A Trip To Space? New Group Aims To Use Contest Fees To Support Space Groups, Too". Universe Today. Retrieved 2014-09-15.

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