Artemis Foundation

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Artemis Foundation
Artemis project emblem.png
Emblem of the original Artemis project; later used as the Foundation logo.
EstablishedApril 1, 2014
HeadquartersPort Phobos, Phobos
Primary spaceportJohn F. Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, FL
MottoEx Scientia Ad Astra
AdministratorSullivan Dwyer



The Artemis Foundation was founded on 1 April 2014 to support the April Fool's Purchase. Nobody was more surprised than Noah Scott when his offer to purchase was accepted, and he quickly expanded the Artemis Foundation from a shell company to an actual corporation.

Their primary business is administration of Project Artemis, the space science body formed after NASA's operations were absorbed by the Transrationality Science Assessment Bureau. (To most people, "Artemis Foundation" and "Project Artemis" are interchangeable.) In support of Project Artemis, they also operate the shipyard Ley in the Main Belt, where they build Shuttles for themselves and anyone else who can afford to buy them[1] and unmanned probes for themselves. In order to break even, they also deliver 'Danelaw satellites to Earth orbit and maintain the International Space Station.

They are owned 85% by Stellvia Corporation, 5% by 'Dane interests supposedly not connected with NASA, and 10% by other Fen organizations and individuals.

The Artemis Foundation employs many of the civilian scientists and researchers previously employed by NASA, and leases the Shuttle processing facilities located at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Their physical assets include the Shuttles Endeavour, Discovery, Atlantis, Challenger and Phoenix, Main Belt Research Stations McAuliffe and Chawla, shipyard Ley and the Handwavium Propulsion Laboratory (both located on asteroid 2709 Sagan), many varieties of unmanned exploration drones in orbit around all four of Sol's gas giants and throughout the Alpha Centauri system, and administrative offices in Crystal Kyoto, Starbase 1, Starbase 2, and Stellvia. They also rent small offices in Canberra, ACT, Australia; Baikonur and Astana, Kazakhstan; and Titusville, FL, and Washington, DC, USA. Their main administrative offices are in Port Phobos, but the Foundation plans to move its administrative headquarters to station Odyssey once that station is complete.

For obvious reasons, the Artemis Foundation does not get along well with the TSAB.

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  1. under licence from the Soviet Air Force, which irks them no end