Our Partners
Cosmic girls
Cosmic Girls mission is getting girls into space and making gender equity a reality by including geographically diverse and economically vulnerable girls within the incoming space generation. The road to becoming an astronaut is demanding. It requires mastering 3 skill sets which we refer to as thier "Astronaut-building Solar System": STEAM Skills, Key Life Skills, Astronaut Skills.
With the help of nonprofit program partners, Cosmic Girls builds a new space generation.
The seeds of Cosmic Girls were sown in the 1960’s, with the first space launches. In every corner of the world, children wondered how they might take part in the incredible marvel of space travel. Some lucky boys’ astronaut dreams were encouraged. But without STEM education, without systems of support, training, and encouragement, most girls’ hopes about going to space were dismissed as impossible dreams.
As a child, Founder Dr. Mindy Howard had dreamed of being an astronaut herself, and in pursuit of that goal, built a career in the fields of human factors engineering, sustainability and training. Work took her around the world, where she found opportunities for girls to enter science-based careers to be limited by many factors; entrenched gender-based stereotypes, few strong female role models, and girls’ own self-limiting beliefs. Howard began wondering: how could girls around the world who dream of space/ science careers get the necessary education, support, and training? What would it take to level the playing field, so that more girls with grit and aptitude could become STEM professionals? Could we provide opportunities for all girls– not just those from Western countries with means, but those from diverse communities around the world– to pursue their space dreams?
Deep Space Biology
Deep Space is composed of people from different countries and professional backgrounds that share love and passion for space and its exploration. The team consists of Georgia Tech students, engineers, and developers. We believe this diversity in cultural and professional backgrounds create opportunities for new perspectives in finding solutions for space mission. Deep Space is focused on developing innovative solutions to advance our knowledge and understanding of spaceflight-related health outcomes and support human expansion across the solar system
Space For Humanity
Space for Humanity is organizing the planet’s first Sponsored Citizen Astronaut Program, where leaders, from any walk of life, can apply for an opportunity to go to space and experience the Overview Effect: the cognitive shift in awareness that occurs when a human being looks down on the Earth from space.
Each year, a new crew is selected from a diverse group of leaders from around the globe. Upon their return, each citizen astronaut has a commitment to leveraging that experience for the collective good.
Girls Love TO Fly
There are less than 6% women in aviation! GLF is a non-profit to help grow the women aviation community. They give out scholarships and more to women aviators to help grow that number . We’re super excited to make this available to young women who have a dream to become a pilot.
A Billion Dreams
Send your Dreams Space, the first A Billion Dreams Space Mission is launching with Space X. When Founder, Alyssia Jovellanos was in a hospital wheelchair when she heard those words: "You have cancer. It's aggressive." Everyone knows that there's a life before cancer diagnosis, and a life after. In that moment, she felt like a death warrant. Was her life over already? She was only in my early 20s... it couldn't be. There were so many things I still wanted to do.
The daily chemo and major surgeries were grueling. She wasn't allowed visitors because of the pandemic. She was allergic to my medications. She lost my hair, parts of her body, and much of her mind. But She had a dream and She held on to it.
She wanted to escape her illness, to think of *anything* outside of her current reality... that there could be something afterward. That she could make it. "To be cancer-free, make a positive impact on the world and contribute to science."
Today, she is in remission and built A Billion Dreams as a non-profit for anyone who has a dream that they too want to hold on to, and see it come to pass.
Written by, Alyssia Jovellanos
During my treatment she often looked up at the sky. There's something about space that makes us wonder, dream, think of something bigger than ourselves. Part of it also seems so far away and out of reach. Often when we think of people doing things in space, we think of government-run organizations and billionaires. It seems those are the only people who can do the impossible up there.
I disagree. I want to bring space a little closer, and inspire both kids and adults alike to still dream, even in hard times. The simple act of sending a name, and thinking of a dream or goal that they want to hold on to, can change an entire person's trajectory.
Dreams move us. They inspire us. They ignite us to take action and be a little bit better every single day.
We are A Billion Dreams.
Space Prize
Space Prize Global challenge is a worldwide contest to promote the advancement of women in STEAM, especially in aerospace. Open to 15-18 year old women worldwide, the contest features a combination of written, video, and creative submissions. Two grand prize winners will each receive one year of mentorship from an influential woman in the space industry, and approximately $250,000 of private astronaut experiences - including a trip to the edge of space on a Space Perspective balloon!
Space Prize is also an education program focused on universal space literacy. An online community platform and interactive open education resources will be available to participants and educators worldwide.
Celestial citizen
Celestial Citizen is a space media company with embedded urban planning values. This organization seeks to provide storytelling and opportunities for public participation across a diverse range of media in order to encourage conversation and civil discourse around how to democratize access to space and make space futures more inclusive.
Youth Hub Africa
Youth Foundation for Development, Education & Leadership (YouthhubAfrica) is a non-profit organization founded in 2011. YouthhubAfrica is a platform for young people in Africa involved in social change to interact, learn and collaborate in new, creative and easy ways. It was registered in Nigeria with the CAC in 2014. YHA is a youth advocacy and policy-oriented organization based in Abuja, Nigeria, but programming into Africa and beyond.
The organization has worked with stakeholders to provide advisory and technical support for development communications, the use of social media to drive advocacy and campaigns as well as structuring youth engagements on a national and regional level. In line with this principle, YHA has staff and volunteers, who are mainly young people, working at the headquarters in Abuja, and with volunteer presence in Lagos, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana.
Spacekind
Are you one of the people on Earth today who dream of going to Space? Do you imagine Space to be the next step in human evolution?
Building on the insight and instruction in her book The New Right Stuff: Using Space to Bring Out the Best in You, Loretta Whitesides, Virgin Galactic Founder Astronaut, leads Space-directed leadership trainings and seminars in traditional and non-traditional classroom settings around the world.
Want to know more? Sign up to learn more about SpaceKind and to be on the cutting edge of what it means to be a human being from the planet Earth. The next step of humankind’s evolution is SpaceKind.