Looking Back, Looking Forwardand Aiming Higher:

The Next Generation’s visions of theNext 50 years in Space

Bijal Thakore, Alex KarlTiffany Frierson, Kathleen Coderre, Agnieszka Lukaszczyk

1. Concept of the Space Generation

2. Why should Space Generation be heard?

3. The 50 years visions of the Space Generation

4. The 50 years visions Part II

5. Looking forward & aiming higher: Results

6. Recommendations

Content

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Children born after October 4 1957are born into a completely differentworld

SGAC - Students and young professionals18 - 35 years of age

Growing up in a world wherespace exploration is either history orcommonplace

Concept of the“Space Generation”

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Why should the SpaceGeneration be heard?

Forecasting the future is like going through a foliage with an experiencedranger - they would be able to see the surroundings differently, identify the

dangers and spot the opportunities, that the untrained eye would miss.James Canton, The Extreme Future

2010 2020 2025

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Someone who is 25 years old today

2030 2035

27yrs 37yrs 42yrs 47yrs 52yrs20yrs 30yrs 35yrs 40yrs 45yrs

Someone who is 18 years old today(Space Generation II)

Someone who is 40 years old today

50yrs 60yrs 65yrs 70yrs 75yrs

50 years visions of theSpace GenerationBackground

To relay the visions of the Space Generation to theBoston University Brainstorming session on the next50 years of space activities

Key Objectives Project and idea incubation Create a competitive yet collaborative and inclusive

effort to compiling visions from all corners Give two youth candidates the exposure to a brain

storm with world leaders Take the message to policy makers and draw

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Methodology overview

Survey & Key Findings What will space look like in the next 50 years? How can we learn from our history on earth as we

move into this next frontier? How can we create opportunities for sustainable,

beneficial and effective use of space? Who will decide these questions? How will conflict of interests be settled? What new systems, structures and paradigms do we

need as we begin this new adventure?

Focus Groups Survey Message

DeliveryKey

Findings

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50 years visions roadmap276 youth - 28 countries - 900 youth visions

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50 years visions of theSpace Generation

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This place will be Too small for us!

20086.65 B

20208.92 B

In the coming years…

World PopulationUN, 2004

50 years visions Part II

Focus Groups Survey Key

FindingsMessageDelivery

Survey & Key Findings What are the biggest challenges facing us globally? What are the challenges you think we are closest to

solve? What is the role of space technologies in helping

solve the global challenges What are the specific recommendations we can take

to policy makers?

Yes: 22.22%

No: 77.78%

1st survey?

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Aiming Higher: Results1. What are the most challenging global

problems facing us?

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Making educationaccessible 11.70%

Lack of clean 18.13%drinking water 10.53%

Poverty 12.28%

Eradicatingpandemicdiseases 2.92%

Solving energycrisis 32.76%

Engineer solutionto climate change15.79%

Eradicate wars& bring peace 11.11%

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17.54%

Yes: 33.02%No: 64.15%

Aiming Higher: Results 21. What are the most pressing issues of the

next 20 years?

2. Do you think Space Technologies play a majorrole in solving these challenges? Yes: 82.08%

Making educationaccessible 6.43%

Lack of clean 22.81%drinking water 12.28%

Poverty 9.36%

Eradicatingpandemicdiseases 4.09%

Solving energycrisis 35.09%

Engineer solutionto climate change23.39%

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18.13%

26.90%Eradicate wars& bring peace 6.43%

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Aiming Higher: Results 3

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Making educationaccessible 15.09% Lack of clean

drinking water 5.66%

Solving energycrisis 42.45%

Engineer solutionto climate change18.87%

Eradicate wars& bring peace 6.60%

What challenge is the most solvable usingspace derived solutions?

Specific RecommendationsNext 5 years

Research intominimizing dependenceon oil

• space solar power• renewables andalternative sources

More privatespace: send decisionmakers to space forthe humblingexperience

InternationalCooperation Freedom ofinformation in allcountries to build aknowledge economy

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The Message8 things the next generation wants thespace world to consider Improvement of communication (and IT) infrastructure, bringing

information and education to even the farthest villages Develop technology to use the ores & energy sources available

beyond the Earth: A NEW MANHATTAN PROJECT IS NEEDED The search for outer planets with life should continue Greater involvement and participation of women More effort needs to be given to collaborative NEO Tracking

initiatives Formalization and passage of a space code of conduct and the

drafting of an international declaration of human intent toestablish a peaceful space faring civilization.

Set up of an international moon/mars base with operations similarto the ISS

Improvement of rapid response on disasters: Earth based/spacebased, especially for ‘developing’ or ‘third world countries’ whichdo not have indigenous tools

Some unique responses “You cannot ‘cure’ poverty with a satellite!” A demonstration of space solar power as a means for

providing electricity to remote and underdeveloped partsof the world can be perhaps be demonstrated by 2015

Poverty can solve itself. It is a matter of political willpowerto invest in money and people to redistribute store to thepoor; Partners in health in Rwanda.

I can solve the energy problem. My machine can… Earth observation satellites can be used to improve

agriculture and severe weather preparedness/response.Additionally, it can be used to track deforestation andclimate change

Cheaper access to space: a functioning space elevator,heavy lift vehicle, RLV, Lunar governance, Moon-Marsbases/colonization

Enhance space research - space based vaccines in anisolated environment (a drug to cure AIDS)?

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Message

50 yearsVisionsStudyInnovation

Has led to activediscussions within SEDS,

SGAC forums

Discovering potentialFinding new member groupsthat are interested inaddressing earth scienceand solutions from spaceprograms

Sparked more young peopleto address the context inwhich space is viewed andget actively involved in

policy formulationInspiration

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Thank you!

See you in Glasgow…www.spacegeneration.orgwww.explorerswanted.com

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