ABOUT SPACE FOR US
We believe
the universe belongs to everyone.
Space For Us is a community-centered astronomy initiative creating more ways for people to encounter, explore, and participate in science—beginning with the night sky.
WHY WE EXIST
Space can feel impossibly far away. Access to it shouldn’t.
Space For Us was founded in Tulsa with a simple idea: astronomy should feel accessible to the communities traditionally left at the edges of science.
We create welcoming entry points into astronomy through public observing, hands-on experiences, community partnerships, technology, storytelling, and opportunities to simply look up together.
You don’t need to be a scientist. You don’t need to own a telescope.
YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW
WHERE TO BEGIN.
CURIOSITY IS ENOUGH.
Astronomy has always belonged to humanity.
We’re creating more ways for people to see themselves within it.
WHAT ACCESS LOOKS LIKE
Access isn't a single moment. It's a pathway into deeper participation met with progression.
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ENCOUNTER
Creating welcoming opportunities to experience astronomy—sometimes for the very first time.
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EXPLORE
Giving people access to telescopes, technology, knowledge, and experiences that make the universe tangible.
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PARTICIPATE
Moving beyond observation toward hands-on learning, skill building, citizen science, research, and deeper pathways into STEM.
Our FOUNDER.
Cheyenne Smith
Space For Us was founded in 2023 by Cheyenne Smith, an arts worker and astrophysics student whose work sits at the intersection of science, culture, and community.
Inspired by her own journey into astronomy, Cheyenne created Space For Us to make the night sky—and the tools we use to understand it—feel less distant.
What began as a desire to create more visible pathways into astronomy has grown into community observing experiences, interdisciplinary collaborations, public programs, and a larger vision for what accessible astronomy can look like in Tulsa.
WHY ASTRONOMY & PHYSICS MATTER
To understand nature is to better understand ourselves.
Physics asks some of the deepest questions we can ask about matter, energy, space, time, and our place within it.
Physics is one of humanity’s most important pursuits because, at its core, it is the pursuit of understanding nature itself.
To study gravity, light, matter, energy, space, and time is to ask some of the deepest questions we can ask: How does the universe work? Where do we fit within it? What are we made of? And what might we still have left to discover?
The universe is constantly conducting experiments at scales and energies we may never be able to reproduce on Earth. Astronomy gives us the opportunity to watch. Through black holes, exploding stars, distant galaxies, and the early universe, we can test our understanding of physics and sometimes uncover entirely new phenomena.
Those discoveries matter. New physics can transform technology, medicine, communication, and the way we understand the world around us. But the value goes beyond innovation.
Understanding nature helps us understand ourselves and our place within a much larger cosmic picture.
That perspective matters in everyday life. Scientific literacy shapes how we interpret information, evaluate evidence, understand technology, respond to uncertainty, and make decisions about the world we share.
At Space For Us, we believe more people deserve access to that way of seeing — not simply to learn facts about space, but to build curiosity, confidence, critical thinking, and a deeper sense of connection to the universe we are all a part of.
LOOKING FORWARD
We're building toward a future where science through astronomy is part of everyday community life.
Our work is growing from individual encounters with the night sky into a connected ecosystem of community observing, hands-on learning, mentorship, technology, research opportunities, and eventually, a mobile observatory capable of bringing deeper astronomical experiences directly into communities.
The vision is simple: meet people where they are, and give curiosity somewhere to go.