On 2005-08-26, Andrew Gray wrote:

If it wasn't so ineptly done, and if I could see a reason, I'd call it
an astroturfing organisation...

The trademark "International Space Agency", incidentally, was filed on
October 7 2002, claiming first use 1982... by a New York corporation.

http://www.international-space-agenc...es/1/index.htm tells us
they were founded in NY as a nonprofit.

The New York Department of State doesn't seem to have a record of them,
but it has one for a Space Agency Corp. Filed March 30 1999, inactive.
Don't think this is them; it seems to be a for-profit.

But look at the bottom of that page again. Who's this United Space
Federation? *They're* a NY nonprofit. And they incorporated in 1990, an
are active... so that much checks out with the stuff he

http://www.international-space-agency.net/coi.html

Aha... they changed their name in May 2003, about when they started
showing up on the web. They look legit. Really pretty damn insane, but
legit; so not a weird astroturf organisation.

....a bunch of *freelance* kooks, instead.

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-Andrew Gray