Earthlight Foundation

the foundation the earthlight foundation (elf) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization founded and incorporated in 2012 to support the expansion of life and humanity beyond the earth by providing vision, leadership and credibility. the organization is run by a small core team encompassing broad field expertise relevant to space exploration, settlement, engineering and communications. elf is minimalist in management structure to remain flexible and drive effective execution. why earthlight? the term earthlight comes from a story told by apollo astronaut john young, who described a haunting blue green light bathing the lunar surface whenever the sun was down and the earth was up. this blue green light was bright enough to read by and illuminated the world’s surface, although the cameras of the day could not capture it in the way the astronaut’s eyes were able to do. this light, and its inherent spectrum, can only be created by the reflection of the rays from a sun of the same magni