SGAC, in partnership with the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Boston University Center for Space Physics, The Planetary Society and the Secure World Foundation, is conducting an ongoing project to determine youth visions for the next 50 years of space exploration.

The first stage of the project saw 900 youth visions supplied in an online survey, which were summarised by a team of youth volunteers and presented at the symposium "The future of space exploration: Solutions to earthly problems" taking place in Boston, USA that took place from 12 - 14 April 2007 featuring prominent individuals such as Freeman Dyson and Dr Harrison Schmitt.

• See Tiffany Frierson's report from her visit to Boston

• See Shi Heng's report from his visit to Boston

We hope to capture the input in a publication tentatively titled: "Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Next Generation's 50-Year Vision for Space". Questions that have emerged in the survey include:

• 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?

Download the round 1 preliminary results!
Download the presentation

Become a participant

The Space Generation is an active online community and projects like this are put together with the efforts of volunteers like yourself. To take part in this project check out the Participants Information.

Subsquent phases will see follow-on surveys and the possible development of a roadmap for the future of space exploration.