Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

I am very pleased to report that the SPACE 3.0 Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in Bethesda, Maryland, has awarded a “One Small Step” grant to Leonard David of Space Data Resources and Information.

The grant is centered on performing select oral history interviews focused on entrepreneurial and commercial space activities for the Foundation’s Space Business & Commerce Archives.

“While NASA has done an excellent job at documenting its activities and actions via oral histories with key management, staff, and the astronauts and program managers, there remains a great need to capture the experiences and perspectives of space entrepreneurs and visionaries,” said Scott Sacknoff, the Foundation’s chair, in a statement.

This is the first “One Small Step” grant recipient focused on performing oral histories in this area, Sacknoff added.

Funded projects

Other projects funded by SPACE 3.0 in recent months include: a grant to the New Mexico Museum of Space History to digitize human spaceflight films from the 1960s, the acquisition of 50,000+ high-resolution images from the human spaceflight program for its space archives, and digitization of the privately published magazine, Space World, which ran from 1960-1988.

SPACE 3.0 has reserved funds to award more grants this calendar year and also is seeking sponsors for the collection of additional oral histories to be performed.

For more information on the Foundation, go to:

https://www.spacecommerce.org/