Mach 30 becomes an official friend of CSTART

A few days ago, J. Simmons of the Mach 30 Foundation for Space Development, extended an offer to become a Friend of CSTART, and today CSTART accepted this offer.  Mach 30 is a US-based, non-profit corporation with the ambitious goal of “leading humanity to become a spacefaring civilization”.  Mach 30 contends that “history, as well as the upcoming gap in U.S. human space flight, proves our current space exploration plans aren’t working”, and thus “a totally new approach is required. Rather than wait for the government, Mach 30 is building a community of individuals who, by working together, can take humanity to space”.

Mach 30′s approach is based on three principles, these being sustainable leadership, open design and a mature technology bias.  The commitment to open design (as defined at opendesign.org) makes Mach 30 a clear ideological ally of CSTART, and one of the few open source space operations to impose explicit guidelines for openness on itself (which CSTART does via its Social Contract).  Everyone at CSTART looks forward to a long and mutually rewarding Friendship with Mach 30.

Mach 30 is the fourth official Friend of CSTART, joining Copenhagen Suborbitals, the Open Luna Foundation and the Portland State Aerospace Society.