Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space
FoundedOctober 30, 1980
FounderPeter Diamandis, Robert D. Richards, and Todd B. Hawley
TypeStudent Organization
Focus"to promote the exploration and development of space"
OriginsStarted at MIT and expanded by letter to Omni magazine
Area served
Worldwide
MethodStudent Collaboration and Connections with Space Companies
Members
10,000+
Key people
Sara Alvarado (current SEDS-USA Chair), Chimira Andres (current SEDS-Canada Chair), Arjun Raizada (current SEDS-India Chair), Holly Whitehouse (current UKSEDS Chair), Aleksandar Tashkovski (current Macedonian SEDS Chair)
EndowmentUSA: $1,290,000
Websiteseds.org, ukseds.org, sedsturkiye.com

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a non-profit international student organization whose purpose is to drive space advocacy of space exploration and development through educational and engineering projects.[1]

  1. ^ "What is SEDS?". seds.org. Archived from the original on December 16, 2007. Retrieved September 5, 2008.