Calgary Space Workers Society

With the use of courtesy titles based on navy ranks Michael Bakk is founder as well as the captain of the Calgary Space Workers Society (CSW). On October 4, 2004 after Michael’s involvement with the Da-Vinci Project who was Canadian contenders for the Ansari X-prize, he was put in charge of the additional extension projects being done by admiral Paul Swift through the Calgary Space Frontier Society (CSFS). The formation of the CSW was to challenge the building of a facility that would be able to sustain life in space. The moon was chosen as it has many resources available for use by people on earth as well as for lunar habitation.  The CSFS are working on the plans to go from earth to the moon and the CSW are doing projects for the moon back to earth.

The first Anasari X-prize was a world competition and Canada’s team called Da-Vinci Project was in the running for being the first with privatized commercial space travel but was forced to temporarily delay their first launch on October 2, 2004

On October 4, 2004,Vergin Galactic’s SpaceShip-One in the United States went into the history books as becoming the first private, manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within 14 days, with a reusable spacecraft and a payload of three people thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize.

The CSW are also supported by Tower Aerospace Inc. and in affiliation with Moon Society, National Space Society (NSS), Canadian Space Society (CSS), and Students for the Exploration and Development of Space in Canada (SEDS Canada).  Michael Bakk is on an advisory board with the Moon Society and was invited to speak at the International Space Development Conference (ISDC 2007) in Dallas TX.

The CSW are a science club of science minded workers who are now well known for their research and development of space facilities and lunar material processing.