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1. Administrative details
2. ISDC 2007 Subpage
3. Strategic Directions, Plans & Policy
   1. Followon Discussion
   2. Second Day
   3. Strategic Framework
      1. Overarching Goal / Mission of NSS
      2. Expressions of a "spacefaring society"
      3. Means to accomplish a "spacefaring society"
      4. Things NSS Can Do!
      5. Thoughts from the Group
      6. Motion Discussion

Administrative details

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ISDC 2007 Subpage

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Strategic Directions, Plans & Policy

Followon Discussion

The FollowOnDiscussion

Second Day

The notes from the SecondDay

Strategic Framework

Overarching Goal / Mission of NSS

1. Making a spacefaring society manifest

   • -- fostering a spacefaring society.

   • NSS Vision

   • NSS Mission

   • NSS Rationale

   • NSS Principles

   • NSS Beliefs

Expressions of a "spacefaring society"

"Expression of a Spacefaring Society include . . ."

1. Space Settlements

2. Space Economy

3. Space Development

4. Space Industrialization

5. Space Commercialization

6. Space Cooperation

7. Space Science

8. Space Exploration

9. Space Education

"We need to understand that what we want is the confluence of all of these"

• It was suggested that "A commitment to a spacefaring society is a fundamental principle"

• "Settlement ==> Spacefaring Society"

• "In support of our vision NSS shall actively pursue and promote human settlement beyond Earth. Fostering a Space Economy, promoting Space Development, spuring Space Industrialization & Commercialization, negotiating Space Cooperation, supporting Space Science, actively pursuing Space Exploration, and a committment to Space Education are integral to a spacefaring society and are important precursors to settlement.

• Straw poll, 15 to 4 remove paragraph from principles. However the sense of the meeting is that "some version of the context, "whatever it is" should be elsewhere.

• Eliminating the questions was purposed. Translating the questions to a sentance for each paragraph.

• NSS Vision: Kill the question and rewording as a sentence. Straw poll 16 for, 0 against, 1 abstain

• NSS Mission: Kill the question and rewording as a sentence. Straw poll 15 for, 0 against, 2 abstain

• NSS Principles: Reorder? Straw poll ??? for, ??? against, ??? abstain

• NSS Principles: In priority order Straw poll 15 for, 0 against, 2 abstain

Means to accomplish a "spacefaring society"

"Everyone has a taxonomy, a way of structuring the discussion formalized or not. Here is one interesting example"

1. Transportation

   • Spaceflight, governmental

   • Spaceflight, personal

   • Spaceflight, commercial

2. Products/Applications

   • Space apps, commercial

   • Space apps, military

   • Space apps, exploration

   • Space apps, science

3. Raw Materials

   • Space resource extraction

Things NSS Can Do!

"It not enough to talk about it, we have to do something!" "Architecting the future is akin to building cathederals, technological or otherwise. It is not and can not be just about what an individual can do." "This is the outline that we need to be filling out"

1. Frame Discussions ...

   • lowering launch costs

   • ITAR

   • space energy solutions ==> resource solution

   • space raw materials solutions ==> resource solution

   • space useable area solutions ==> resource solution

2. Orchestrate Cooperation

   • Internal

   • Cross-Organization

   • Broader Community

   • International Coordination

     • Improve NSS international policy

       • What are other countries doing?

         • Other national space policies

         • Desired End States

         • International Space Policy Forum

           • Bring the Internationals to ISDC's in the states

           • Partner to bring the ISDC to the international community.

       • Consider an electronic membership for International Members.

     • Change the name or instead of changing the name you extend to the federation of national space societies?

     • Multi-language

   • Upcoming Milestone Linkages

   • Space Calender linkages between organizations

   • Political Action

3. Educate

   • Ad Astra

   • Web Site

   • Space Calendar

   • Briefing Blitz

4. Research & Development

   • Research Opportunities Clearing House

   • Environment analogs & habitats

5. Building "Community"

   • Hierarchies/Stratum

     • Chapter Level

     • National Level

     • International Level

   • Tools

     • Printed Matter

     • Electronic Matter

     • Mind Share

     • Placement

     • Cross Links

6. Build Hardware/Software/Systems

   • Things to use there . . .

     • Demonstrate plug-in/plug-out technology

   • Things to help us get there . . .

     • Internet Collaboration Tools

     • Conference Management Tools

Thoughts from the Group

1. Where is the link to tangible benefits for the tapping into our future membership?

2. Importance of Value propistions

3. Need to move forward with getting our message out and reaching the right communities

4. We need advocacy for settlement as a driver for our organization

5. We should make clear that space science and education are part of our program.

6. What matter is the "Things that NSS will Do!"

7. Where does space fit into peoples lives. What is important and what will it mean to them.

8. We need to focus on short and long term goals

9. More science in NSS

10. Motions must be understood in terms relevant to Society

11. Our objectives and goals transcend any national barriers

12. Link to youth, what are the trancendent images and concepts

13. Vision is the full use of space for the betterment of humankind

14. We have to about what we are actually going to do

15. We need to focus on the implementation

16. Apollo changed philosophy more than anything

17. All the technologies and all the sciences that lead us to our long range goal are estential, we need to be about the business of moving forward.

18. Get on with the business, ala the blitz etc.

19. It is not so much the words, it is the follow through actions

Motion Discussion

1. Vision motion - How long do we expect this to last? . . . the Board can change it anytime it wants to for whatever reason.

2. Wordsmithing is secondary to the work that needs to be done, but in the fullness of time it to must be done

3. The material must meet two tests:

   • Do they guide our near term actions?

   • Do they tell the rest of world what we are about?

4. We need to balance the strategic and tactical levels

5. We need to correlate our actions to our roadmap

6. 14 to 2 first motion passes (Wordsmithing is required to reach for unanimous consent) ? abstentions

7. 13 to 2 second motion passes (Wordsmithing is required to reach for unanimous consent) 2 abstentions

8. 14 to 1 third motion passes (Wordsmithing is required to reach for unanimous consent) 1 abstentions 1 absent

9. 15 to 0 fifth motion passes (Wordsmithing is required to reach for unanimous consent) 2 abstentions 0 absent

10. Discussion on motion four . . .

    • strike "in priority order"

    • change order

    • Parlimentarian ruling is that the question can not be seperated

    • The inclusion of the quote issue is not on table

    • Setttlement as a verb to make clear that we are raising the big tent that is inclusive of all the precursors.

    • We must fix on the context that "settlement" implies in this motion

11. 6 to 10 fifth motion does not pass (Wordsmithing is required to reach for unanimous consent) 1 abstentions 0 absent

    • We do not have agreement on context here, we will amend the agenda to extend the Board meeting to allow for the discussion of context.

12. 14 to 2 to 1 fourth motion tabled for further work based on agreement in principle to establish the context of the big tent to be put someplace perhaps as a second sentence, perhaps elsewhere. Work will continue with the goal of presenting to board where things stand in the morning. Regardless the Marketing & Strategy Committee will carry the action forward. Gary text basis for context with updated verbs and adjectives, as well as missing clauses added. Flow into the "Margaret" single sentence rationalizing the overlay and passing the one breath marketing test.

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