 He has maintained his space industry blog, Rocketforge, since 2003.Prior to his activism within the space industry, Michael Mealling was recruited into the Libertarian Party by the late Ron Crickenburger in 1989.He served for one election cycle on the Libertarian Party of Georgia state executive committee, but became discouraged after realizing the amounts of money required to make an impact and especially discouraged about the idea of repairing the United States.