16 placements across 6 camps. Interpretive public-record readings, not endorsements or self-identification.
Cleanest H-F-P-Sett placement. Mass-appeal Mars rhetoric; treaty-skeptical commercial frontier.
Mars Direct architect. Engineering-traditionalist; more science-tolerant than Musk.
Long-standing Mars Society sympathizer; political-frontier rhetoric in the populist register.
Former NASA Administrator (Trump 1.0); architect of Artemis Accords framework.
Migrated from early Orbital Mercantilism. Tension between stated Earth-preservationist position and revealed competitive behavior at Blue Origin.
Original civic-republican free-space habitat vision. Direct lineage to current Bezos position.
Commercial-frontier reformer working within institutional Artemis framework. Has flown twice (Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn).
Knowledge-romantic. Pale Blue Dot register. Supported Apollo but argued robots were primary.
Mainstream science popularizer in the Sagan lineage; human-tolerant.
Planetary Society policy lead; pragmatist within the science-internationalist consensus.
Astrotopia author; postcolonial critique of space-as-frontier. Sits at the radical edge of the science-internationalist consensus rather than fully outside it.
ILRS-leading; mixed human (Tiangong) and robotic (Chang'e) programs. Frontier-mode vis-a-vis Artemis Accords.
Original framing: machines build cislunar economy that humans later inhabit.
Synthesis figure for the strategic-commercial-nationalist cluster. Operational reframing of NASA mission as strategic/economic infrastructure.
USSF Chief of Space Operations. Cleanest contemporary Space Hawks placement.
ULA CEO. Post-ideological commercial executor who runs the orbital economy without ideological commitments. Anchors the Operator flavor.