Space Associations throughout the world can help us get faster into the space by organizing as many alternative space projects for students and life-long learners as it is possible. We need to involve all unused, trained resources available. Every space organization should take initiative.

Lack of significant progress in space exploration and utilization is because of missing technologies which is the result of the wrong ways how the people cooperate.

Example of missing technologies is lack of alternative to the rockets, and lack of significantly more powerful power sources.

Example of wrong cooperation is that paradox that we educate so many of people in precise sciences, and yet we employ just a small fraction of this potential work force in space related activities.

What does the human do when his dreams are denied? He adapts, and focuses on something else. In majority of the cases – on something simpler, more required in our society. Will this human keep going at that intensity he was trained to live in the university? Will he keep reading fresh scientific literature? Will he remember about the space projects?

The nature of the inventing process is very simple – the more persons try to invent something, the bigger the possibility for accidental invention to happen. That same is true for the basic research and its findings.

Also, in the case of reading scientific papers, having a lot more readers could trigger some useful thought in one lucky mind. One good thought could trigger a cascade of new, game changing events in the space industry.

So, how to involve in the space industry all those additional men resources available?

In the case of ready-made adults it is very simple – they do have the knowledge and the motivation. We just need to create new forms of employment for them. More about it follows.

In the case of the students, we need to involve them in the space projects and make them autonomous on this new life-long path.

The problem is that they are still kids, and everyone of them do mature and learn at the different pace, so majority of them still need special kicking and pushing forwards as long as it takes. Ignorance of this fact is the worst mistake made by the universities.

So, if education and early employment machinery are not putting them all in the space projects, some external force have to provide some help. Space associations could be that force.

Space Associations could help students:

• By forming student groups based on similar interests;
• By helping with grants paperwork;
• By helping to establish their garage labs and stuff these with the first equipment;
• By initially performing their project management activities and gradually handling these functions to them;
• By involving them into associations incubated Space Projects.

These Space Associations activities should be cyclic, recurring every year from the fresh start.

So I propose to create a mechanism in existing space associations that each year assigns mentors to new class of kids and involves them in the space incubator projects, groups them in small garage lab teams, and helps them with legal paperwork and initial projects management.

The quality of these recurring activities should be that high, that later in their life they should keep their garage based activities at the hobby level even if not getting serious space job right at the moment at NASA, or Roscosmos.

Speaking about the life long learners who did not get space job - they could join these students groups and help to educate and organize students thus taking part in these new space projects. Its that simple.

Proposed ideas certainly does not mean that existing ways of organizing things are wrong. Existing space organizations are specialized on providing guaranteed top-notch results which creates elevated requirements on human resources.

Some example ways how to finance proposed activities are:

• Education funds for students;
• Adults life long learning stimulation funds;
• Knowledge based economy creation funds;
• Research and engineering hardware manufacturers advertising and market creation funds.

The benefits from these activities will be:

• Our economies will be transformed even further into knowledge based economies/societies;
• Creation of countless micro space projects;
• Healthy alternative to the existing space business ecosystem by creating competition to the established and stabilized social networks;
• Mutagen factor for “the system”;
• This way we can make space careers accessible almost to everyone;
• Nearby Space Projects will spark interest in the main society and journalists as they will be allowed and kindly invited to visit these “garage exhibitions”;
• After such mobilization of men resources we can expect a wave of new discoveries to happen.

Remember, associations as the tool for policy making, leaders speeches, hierarchy fights of alpha members are not that important to casual space enthusiasts.

From intellectual being point of view of the most importance is the chance to perform real actions to make the dreams a reality. This is what the customers of the government institutions want. They want very personal access to the space related activities.

And, for you, this is a chance to get in the real space project. Do you have that many other options?

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