What we're doing

The Citizens' Space Policy Initiative is the first large-scale global survey asking ordinary people — not governments, not corporations — what they believe the future of space should look like.

Why this matters

Decisions about space are being made right now: who owns orbital slots, who governs the Moon, who decides what weapons go into orbit, who profits from asteroid mining. These are decisions that will affect every person on Earth, and right now almost no citizens have a voice in them.

What happens to your response

Your answers contribute to two living documents — the Citizens' Vision and the Citizens' Policy — which are synthesised by AI from the full corpus of responses and updated regularly as more voices join. These documents will be published openly and submitted to relevant international bodies.

Who we are

Celestial Commons is an independent initiative. We have no affiliation with any government, space agency, or commercial space company. We are funded by participant donations and small grants.

How we do it

Your data

Your name and email are stored separately from your survey responses. They cannot be linked to your answers by anyone without direct database administrator access.

Your survey answers are stored anonymously — identified only by a random session ID, never by your name or email. Your answers are never published individually.

Your identifier

The pixel art identifier you build is yours. It is stored alongside a cryptographic hash of your email (not the email itself), which is used only to verify your identity when you return to view your results.

How we use AI

Claude (by Anthropic) reads all submitted responses and synthesises them into the Citizens' Vision and Citizens' Policy documents. Individual responses are never quoted directly — only themes, percentages, and R-number citations. The AI never sees your name or email.

Your rights

  • You can request deletion of your data at any time by emailing privacy@celestialcommons.org with your identifier name.
  • You can request a copy of your stored data.
  • You can withdraw consent at any time before submission.

What we don't do

We don't sell data. We don't run advertising. We don't share individual responses with any third party. We don't use your email for anything except result updates and deletion requests.