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Moon Village Association and Space Renaissance International sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Moon Village Association and Space Renaissance International sign a Memorandum of Understanding

Vienna, Austria – (November 9 2022)
On 9th November, 2022 during the Moon Village Association’s Workshop and Symposium taking place in Los Angeles, California, leaders of the MVA and of the Space Renaissance International announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for furthering their shared goals of researching the developments in the space sector.
The Memorandum of Understanding has the scope to start collaborating in a joint effort to promote space activities, science public outreach, education and international participation of space stakeholders into research in all subjects related to the development, use and further exploration of outer space.

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SRI NEWS – SPACE RENAISSANCE AT IAC 73 IN PARIS

SRI NEWS – SPACE RENAISSANCE AT IAC 73 IN PARIS

Space Renaissance International is participating to the 73rd International Astronautical Congress 2022, in Paris, from Sunday 18 to Thursday 22 of September.The IAC 2022 theme is Space for @ll to reach beyond the space community and bringing together all communities to offer great opportunities for networking and forging new contacts and potential partnerships.SRI decided to invest in a booth at the exhibition center, together with our partners LUNEX EMM, MMAARS, ORIGIN, ITACCUS. Our place is D11B.

SRI is now a proud member of IAF, with which we are increasing collaboration in several committees.

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Space Renaissance International & Partners are happy and proud to announce  the Space Renaissance Art & Science Festival of Berlin

Space Renaissance International & Partners are happy and proud to announce the Space Renaissance Art & Science Festival of Berlin

The Festival will take place, from 7 to 9 July 2022, at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin (Germany).

You are welcome to join the Festival in presence, sizing an excellent opportunity to visit the historic Archenhold Observatory and the beautiful city of Berlin. However, the Festival will be an hybrid conference, therefore virtual attendees are welcome as well.

Register here for free 

A detailed programme, and all the information – including logistics and hotels accommodations – are available on this page

The agenda, in brief:

  • The first day, 7 of July, focuses on “Space Philosophy & Policy”, with a Panel on Civilian Space Development – How to accelerate it? How to support new space industry to achieve the goal of kicking off civilian space development within 2030? What should space agencies do, and what should the space activist organizations do?
  • The 8 of July, “Astronauts and Civilians, Science & Tech Day”, will see two panels: on Space Habitats and Analog Training; Space Night, after dinner: Night Observation at the giant telescope
  • The 9 of July, the “Space Art Day”, with two art panels, in German and English language

The programme includes several keynote speakers, e.g. Seth Shostak (SETI), Giuseppe Reibaldi and John Mankins (Moon Village Association), Michelle Hanlon (NSS President), Bob Zubrin (Mars Society Founder), Jan Wörner (former ESA Director General), Bernard Foing (SRI President, chair of ITACCUS and EuroMoonMars). Many experts will tell us what’s going on on the edge of space settlement, science, art and exploration.

Several space artists will present their artworks, including: Priscilla Thomas, Mary Kuiper, Barbara King, and many members of the MoonMars art group.

The Festival will host the GALIX Congress 2022.

The Partners contributing to organize the Berlin Festival:

  • Space Renaissance International
  • Space Renaissance Germany
  • ITACCUS – IAF Committee for the Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS)
  • The Mars Society
  • Support Association of the Archenhold-Observatory and the Zeiss Gross Planetarium Berlin e. V.
  • Society for Culture and Space e. V. (Gesellschaft für Kultur- und Raumfahrt e. V.)
  • LUNEX EuroMoonMars
  • Stiftung Planetarium Berlin (Berlin Planetarium Foundation)
  • SZ-Rechtsanwälte Steinhäußer & Zieschang
  • GALIX – Global Alliance for International Collaboration in Space

Registration is open, for free

The participation is free, however all attendees are kindly requested to register, to help the organization of the conference: https://spacerenaissance.space/register-to-the-space-renaissance-festival-berlin-2022/

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THE 2021 SPACE RENAISSANCE CONGRESS FINAL EVENT JULY 15TH, A GREAT EVENT!

THE 2021 SPACE RENAISSANCE CONGRESS FINAL EVENT JULY 15TH, A GREAT EVENT!

THE 2021 SPACE RENAISSANCE CONGRESS FINAL EVENT JULY 15TH, A GREAT EVENT!

The 2021 Space Renaissance Congress held its final event July Thursday 15yth, and it was a great event! In case you missed it, you can watch it here.

Our new elected President, Prof. Bernard Foing, chaired the event with great competence and verve, and pronounced a brief address, unveiling the next five years period, towards the SRI 4th World Congress, in 2026.

The Congress had 300 registered attendees from 43 Countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brasil, Bulgaria, Canada, Ch, China, Denmark, Deutschland, Equador, France, Germany, Ghana, Hawaii, India, Iran, Iran, Italia, Japan, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Nepal, Nl, Norway, Pakistan, Peru’, Philippines, Polska, Republic Of New Afrika, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, Ucraina, Uk, Ukraine, Usa, Venezuela.

The Congress sessions had more than 1000 visualizations on the Space Renaissance Youtube channel.

Three Motions were approved during the June 30th 2021 Voting Session, and confirmed during the following 15 days by the online voting mechanism:

65.71% of the having right to vote expressed their vote for the 3 final motions.

The SRI President, Prof. Bernard Foing, was elected with 95.35% AYE, 0% NAY, 4.65% ABSTAIN

61.43% of the having right to vote expressed their vote for the new President.

The SRI Board of Directors was elected with 93.02% AYE, 0% NAY, 6.98% ABSTAIN

61.43% of the having right to vote expressed their vote for the new Board of Directors

The detailed SRIC3 Acta, including all the presented papers and oral presentations (Youtube videos)

The SRI President, Prof. Bernard Foing, was elected with 95.35% AYE, 0% NAY, 4.65% ABSTAIN

61.43% of the having right to vote expressed their vote for the new President

The SRI Board of Directors was elected with 93.02% AYE, 0% NAY, 6.98% ABSTAIN

61.43% of the having right to vote expressed their vote for the new Board of Directors

The detailed SRIC3 Acta, including all the presented papers and oral presentations (Youtube videos)

1) The complete and detailed Acta of the Congress is online, for all of us to be viewed and reviewed. On this page you can find:

  • The presented papers, for download
  • The pointer to each live presentation, in the recorded videos on YouTube (hyperlink-pointer to the hour:minutes:seconds)

When watching to any video on the YouTube Space Renaissance channel, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel!

Soon we will also begin the work to assemble the Acta Book, to be published on Amazon, let’s say, within September 2021.

Prof. Bernard Foing — for 30 years ESA officer and tireless space activist — is the new elected President of Space Renaissance International.

Here’s the brief address Bernard pronounced during the Final Party:

“Thank you very much Adriano and all of you, dear friends and colleagues. It is really a honor and a pleasure for me to step into this task, of leading the Space Renaissance International, and all the initiatives we have been discussing. I want to give a special tribute to the Founders, our fathers founders! They gave us a great initial Constitution, the Statutes and also the initial direction. Thanks to all of you, who contributed to the recent Space Renaissance Congress. We discussed many ideas, concepts and contents, and we discussed the Theses documents, converging to our Final Resolution, that was adopted for the next five years. So, this part is a very clear line roadmap for what we could do. I am a man of soul, but also a man of action, I like to think with my hands too, well knowing they can help my brain. I want to pay tribute to the leaders of Space Renaissance International, in particular to Adriano, who has taken a very commitment and motivation to all of us. Then I rise this glass in honor of Adriano and all of our Directors.”

Taking the maximum cultural profit from our Congress. What is the main outcome of our Congress? It is constituted by the concepts that emerged during the presentations and discussions, the things we understood, or better clarified, thanks to the great collective work we made, since October 2020 to July 2021, through the webinar series and the five days of the Congress. During the next weeks and months we will produce several newsletters and articles, “mining” the conceptual contents. A few non exhaustive examples:

  • the social inclusivity, as a 4th parameter to assess the level of a civilization (with reference to the Kardashev-Zubrin-Sagan scale)
  • the solution of the energy issue on Earth, by moving the industries outside the planet, in the cislunar space
  • the key and indispensable role of the new space industry to save and lead the global economy growth, overcoming the multiple crisis
  • a gas strategy to kick-off the civilian space development before 2030
  • a new enthusiastic aim to bring art in space, giving voice and visibility to many passionate space artists
  • a new enthusiastic rush to give voice and representation to all of the Countries of Planet Earth, wherever there’s somebody aiming aim, out of this world
  • the urgency and the opportunity to start recovering and reusing space debris

Just to name some of the many key concepts we discussed in this congress.

Keep on following and supporting the Space Renaissance!

Also consider joining the SRI Crew…

Join the Space Renaissance Crew today, to help us implementing the civilian space development! 

Long live the Space Renaissance!

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2021 SPACE RENAISSANCE CONGRESS – THE FINAL RESOLUTION

2021 SPACE RENAISSANCE CONGRESS – THE FINAL RESOLUTION

The 3rd World Congress of the Space Renaissance International “Civilian Space Development” took place since June 26th to 30th: five days of intense discussions, which were preceded by 7 webinars, since October 2020. The congress saw 10 keynote speakers, 80 submitted papers, 66 live presentations, 15 symposium sessions, and a poster session. The SRIC3 Committee held 20 meetings, since November 2020. We had more than 200 registered participants, and the YouTube recorded live sessions have up to 200 visualizations each. The whole congress was done on Zoom, attended on Attendify and broadcasted live on the Youtube Space Renaissance channel.The last day, Day 5, the Congress approved a final resolution, and two motions on thesis 1 and thesis 2. These approved theses elements  on “threats to civilization and opportunities through expansion” consolidate the Space Renaissance Credo and the rationale for SRI future actions, during next 5 years.

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The Space Renaissance Medici Fund Announces Three Student Sponsored Programmes

The Space Renaissance Medici Fund Announces Three Student Sponsored Programmes

The Space Renaissance Medici Fund Announces Three Student Sponsored Programmes

Space Renaissance International (SRI) Medici Fund is happy to announce that, due to the generosity of our Education Sponsors, we are able to award a few prizes and grants for students of any age, interested to space settlement, exploration and civilian development.Three programmes are now open to applicants, in the frame of the 2021 Space Renaissance Congress “The Civilian Space Development”.The 3° SRI World Congress (SRIC3) will take place in a virtual format and will provide attendees with cutting-edge developments in Space Settlement & Exploration, Human Rights, Ethics, Policies, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Energy, Economics and Education from leaders in their respective fields. Experts in research and industry will present the emerging technologies and future directions in their field.Students at all ages, who are interested in Space Science, Technology, Philosophy, Economy, Policy, Law, Art, are warmly encouraged to participate to the 2021 Space Renaissance Congress.

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A call to the world wide Space Community: the Civilian Space Protocol

A call to the world wide Space Community: the Civilian Space Protocol

Space Renaissance International, together with Lifeboat Foundation, Team Synergy Moon and Seanasol, just launched a world wide initiative, called “The Civilian Space Protocol” (CSP). The protocol is a letter that we plan to send to the Governments of 194 Countries of Planet Earth, to solicit them to spend at least 20% of their military budget to fund the civilian space development. Continue reading →

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SPACE RENAISSANCE INTERNATIONAL WILL ATTEND UNISPACE +50 – PRESS RELEASE

SPACE RENAISSANCE INTERNATIONAL WILL ATTEND UNISPACE +50 – PRESS RELEASE

Release n. 1 – 14/06/2018

Vienna 18-22 June 2018 – The Space Renaissance International Association will participate to the UNISPACE +50 conference, the first United Nations Global Space Summit of the 21st century, organised by the UNOOSA (UN Office for Outer Space Affairs) in Vienna from 18-22 June 2018.

UNISPACE +50 is an important event, having the aim of strengthening international collaboration, building, with the support of all the involved actors, a new concept of space governance, in line with Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development of the United Nations. The conference will further confirm the great social benefits of space as an area of innovation, inspiration, interconnection, integration and investment, based on the exploration and peaceful use of space.

During the first two days, UNISPACE +50 Symposium will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, which took place in 1968, and will offer the international community the opportunity to consider the future course of global space cooperation for the benefit of humankind. Hundreds of representatives of the space community, representatives of governments, the private and industrial sectors, academia, non-governmental organisations and more than 20 space agencies from around the world are expected.

The UNISPACE +50 High Level Segment of the 61st session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) will be held on 20-21 June, to allow member states and UN permanent observers to reflect on the outcome of the three previous UNISPACE conferences and consider the future of international cooperation in the peaceful uses of space. Member States are expected to adopt a UNISPACE +50 resolution on 20 June, which will be presented to the UN General Assembly in the form of a resolution to be considered at its 73rd session in 2018.

For Space Renaissance International, the opportunity to participate in this conference is a first acknowledgement of a path that led us to put together, during the works of the 2nd National Congress of Space Renaissance Italia (the Italian chapter) held in May in Bologna, more than forty speakers from the most prestigious Italian and European research centers and aerospace organizations.  — said Adriano Autino, the president and founder of Space Renaissance International, who will also attend to the works of the High Level Segment UNISPACE +50 — This symposium will open the doors of COPUOS to a debate in which the many NGOs active in the space sector, including ours, which promotes civil expansion in space, to ensure the continuation and progress of civilization itself, will be allowed to participate. Space Renaissance International will bring to Vienna its most urgent recommendations: that the United Nations act with all its means to support the quick start of the industrialization of the Earth’s orbit and of the geo-lunar space. To this end, the Association promotes the reuse of space debris, the low-cost transportation of untrained civilian passengers in space, the protection of life and health in space, the use of asteroid and lunar raw materials, fostering public and private investment in civilian activities in space.”

Notes for editors

Space Renaissance International is an international astronautical-humanist organization dedicated to broadening the awareness that human expansion into space is fundamental to the sustainability of today’s civilization and its indispensable growth. The Association intends to trigger a change in public opinion towards space travel and the use of space resources, in order to achieve a substantial increase in investment in human space activities and a focus of these investments on concrete actions oriented to civil expansion in space.
https://spacerenaissance.space

Space Renaissance Italia is the Italian chapter of Space Renaissance International.
https://spacerenaissance.it

Space Renaissance USA, Inc. is the USA chapter of Space Renaissance International.
https://usa.spacerenaissance.space

UNOOSA (United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs) is the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, based in Vienna, which provides the secretariat for COPUOS. Its tasks also include the management of the register of space objects launched into space. The current Director is the Italian astrophysicist Simonetta Di Pippo.
https://www.unoosa.org/

COPUOS (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space) was established by the General Assembly in 1959 to govern the exploration and use of space for the benefit of all mankind: for peace, security and development. The Committee has been mandated to review international cooperation in the peaceful uses of space, study space-related activities which could be undertaken by the United Nations, encourage space research programmes and study legal problems arising from space exploration.
https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/copuos/index.html

Contacts

  • USA (MEDIA) – Walter Putnam WaltPutnam@gmail.com +1 4044 051388
  • SPACE RENAISSANCE USA, Inc. – Manuel Perez manperez@yahoo.com +1 718 7264111
  • ITALY (PRESS) – Marco Pavesi marcogiovanni.pavesi@gmail.com +39 338 392 0509
  • ITALY (OUTREACH) – removed due to privacy

Download a pdf version here: SRI_Release_01 

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