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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5184124" data-attributes="member: 19675">As I recall, in the Grand Tour (as well as the film version of Sagan's Contact), one of the anti-space/pro-Earth groups is religious in nature.  Thus, you could have such a group with a quasi-religious elements adopt a latinate name, such as "Vox Terra" (Voice of Earth) with groups opposed to them calling the group "Terrarists."  Since space exploration requires all kinds of industrial processes, all of which involve at least some kind of toxic waste, opposition could be ecological in nature.  A fictional version of the RW organization "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_First!" target="_blank">Earth First!</a>" could take an aggressive stance against the space program.In series such as David Wingrove's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Kuo" target="_blank">Chung Kuo</a> novels, there are no real faction names, just your typical haves (corporations, rulers, criminals) and about 34 billion have-nots who are separated by technology.  Thus, you could have opposition based on economics & class, typified by the usual suspects you see in political debates.All kinds of names could be involved in the pro-space side.  You could use extant gov't agencies like NASA and commercial/military aircraft builders like Saab and Lockheed-Martin, or you could extrapolate from private organizations like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize" target="_blank">Burt Rutan's</a> company or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Astra_Rocket_Company" target="_blank">Ad Astra</a>.</blockquote>

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