“The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.”

A quote from Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison’s paper ‘Searching for Interstellar Communications’ that was published in September 1959, one of the first formal rational arguments supporting the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

Positive energy attracts positive results. Love is so easy to give and  so hard to let go, and where there is love, there is unity. Let's work  together to build a society and create a future were we coexist help one  another for a peaceful and happy life.

This pertains to Asgardia finance, funding, and grants administration (also for scholarships and other awards).

Based upon my understanding and experience, I believe that a Different Type of grants program is appropriate, fitting and necessary for Asgardia and its Mission Objectives.  This program must be developed carefully and it will be distinct and (r)evolutionary in comparison to the administration and processing of conventional, typical grants and awards as has been the practice in the past several decades and even the past century and longer on Earth.  We are working on very similar models within MIRNOVA Academy and Foundation and its Programs.  See http://mirnova.org and contact us.  Let us work together to develop a grants program that is good for the Future of both Earth and Space.

For instance, there is an excellent basis in the Academic OLYMPIAD programs that have been conducted for decades in Russia and previously in the Soviet Union.  We are now working with several Russia universities, institutes and centers, in cities that include Moscow, Zelenograd, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk (and there will be more) on a ROBOTICS OLYMPIAD program.  This will have a very strong SPACE focus.

I believe that together we can build an excellent International, Global, Planetary program that will work with excellence toward the development of personal and social advances - not only in the formal "STEM" areas but in personal and social character-building, ethics, and sound conduct, for the lives and lifestyles ahead in orbital, interplanetary, and exoplanetary Space.(Sincerely, Martin Joseph Dudziak)

Significant experience spanning my entire lifetime and career, including at present, in the central issues, challenges, problems, and tasks that are important for Asgardia's present and long-term sustained growth.  Foremost is my present work as Science Director of MIRNOVA - Academy and Foundation, with its STEM (STEAM) Programs in education, research and communication.  About this you can read preliminary information at http://mirnova.org

Then there is the professional scientific and technical work.  You can learn about some of my background at these URLs:
http://martin.tdyn.org --- CV and resume including re: physics and space

http://exo.tdyn.org --- very Space-centric

http://tdyn.org --- other concurrent and continuing technical projects which are also businesses

http://instinnovstudy.org --- fundamental research

However, most of all, you should concentrate upon what we are doing now, today, as MIRNOVA, http://mirnova.org with youth, of all ages, and spanning from elementary school through college and post-graduate levels, and with mentor-expert teams.

WE ARE BUILDING, STEP BY STEP, THE TECHNOLOGY THAT A REAL (r-e-a-l) ASGARDIA NATION IN SPACE REQUIRES - ROBOTIC SYSTEMS THAT CAN DO WHAT ARTHUR C. CLARK IMAGINED AND ENVISIONED IN HIS "RAMA" AND "RAMA II" BOOKS AND IN "2001" AND OTHERS - AND WHAT ISAAC ASIMOV ENVISIONED IN HIS WORKS LIKE THE "FOUNDATION" SERIES --- R-E-A-L-L-Y.

So, please Vote for me, Martin Joseph Dudziak