The Citizens' Space Policy Initiative is the first large-scale global space policy survey that asks ordinary people — not governments or corporations — what they believe the future of space should look like.
We're gathering responses from ordinary people to build two core documents:
These documents are updated regularly, published openly, and made available to relevant international bodies — including political, civil society, and academic groups increasingly in need of insight and policy grounded in real public opinion.
We use a technique called backcasting. Rather than starting with the technical concerns of the present, we begin by asking people about their dreams for the future, and then work backwards to present priorities. This encourages democratic consensus-building and helps overcome the alienation many people feel about space as a topic.
Celestial Commons is an independent initiative, operating as a non-registered association (n.E.V) in Germany, with no affiliation to any government, space agency, or commercial space company. We are funded personally by our members.
Decisions about space are being made right now: who governs the Moon, who decides what weapons go into orbit, who profits from asteroid mining. These decisions will affect every person on Earth, far into the future. Yet very few people have a voice in them.
Space can feel remote and irrelevant — there's a notion that Earth and space are distinct systems rather than interconnected ones. But that creates a self-reinforcing loop. The more we accept it's not for us, the more others fill the vacuum.
To change course and ensure space really is for everyone, we need to start building connections now.
The information you provide is really important to us. Here is exactly how we handle it and why.
Your answers are anonymised — names and emails are excluded from all data processing — and identified only by a random session ID.
Your name and email (if provided) are stored separately from your survey responses on a GDPR-compliant database hosted at supabase.com. They cannot be linked to your answers without direct database administrator access.
The identifier you build (planet, ship, or station) is yours. It acts as a key and is stored using an encrypted hash linked to that session ID, used to verify your identity when you return to view your results.
The remainder of your responses are incorporated anonymously into a separate table in our database. They are referred to simply as "R1, R2…" and so on. This is the source we use to develop and reference responses in our two living documents:
To assist this process, we use a mixture of AI models. No identifying information is included at any stage.
Our AI policy holds that LLMs should only be used for tasks for which they are uniquely suited — natural language processes that assist and scale, rather than replace, human communication and collective creativity. The AI helps identify common themes, dreams, problems and priorities so we can highlight consensus. When it does so, we ensure it references specific responses using "R1, R37…" etc., and we verify those references ourselves.
We don't sell data. We don't run advertising. We don't share individual responses with any third party.