Comments on: ProSpace responds regarding March Storm

By: Space Politics » “Snowmageddon” cancels advocacy event

Space Politics » “Snowmageddon” cancels advocacy event — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:59:35 +0000

[…] casualty: the Space Frontier Foundation’s “Take Back Space 2010″ lobbying effort (originally, and controversially, known as “March Storm” and later renamed “First Flight”). The Foundation’s Michael Heney notes via […]

By: Space Politics » SEA, ProSpace set plans for lobbying blitzes

Space Politics » SEA, ProSpace set plans for lobbying blitzes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:49:30 +0000

[…] ProSpace has also set a date for its March Storm 2010: February 28-March 2. Preliminary agenda items will be posted in the near future. No word, though, on the state of the controversy between ProSpace and the Space Frontier Foundation, which announced plans last week for its own March Storm event. […]

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:42:11 +0000

And you wonder why no one in Washington takes New Space groups seriously…

By: Robert G. Oler

Robert G. Oler — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:27:36 +0000

The success of our fourteen previous March Storm events is evident and a source of pride for our members..

“success”…really

Robert G. Oler

By: Hilda

Hilda — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:06:11 +0000

The number one mistake you can make in doing congressional advocacy is stepping on the toes of others doing the same thing, or being unaware of the work of others doing the same thing. Message sent is that these guys don’t talk to those guys. Your own message is buried by that message.

As if a note to this forum isn’t enough. ProSpace has now used a press release to whack SFF. “This past week, The Space Frontier Foundation committed a similar mistake, releasing a statement that erroneously contended our annual March Storm event was allowed to ‘fade away’.” You would have thought that hte proper response would be a phone call. But …

Now, what was that message?

By: Mark R. Whittington

Mark R. Whittington — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:49:40 +0000

This illustrates how dysfunctional space activism has become. The SFF people could have made a few phone calls to the ProSpace people before poaching on the March Storm idea. One hopes that things can be smoothed over and the campaign can be made a joint one.