Jordan Weisman asked his friends in 1980 if anyone else would join him in starting a company to publish adventures and deckplans for Traveller, and L. Ross Babcock III had the money so together they formed FASA.
[1]: 119 FASA agreed in August 1981 to publish the magazine High Passage, for which Weisman and Babcock did both the layout and editing.
[2] Weisman and Babcock obtained the license to create a Star Trek role-playing game, and looked outside the company for a Star Trek design team, and freelance group Fantasimulations Association ultimately created Star Trek: The Role Playing Game (1983) for FASA.
[1]: 126 Babcock became the final president of FASA in early 2000, overseeing the company as it was prepared to exit the tabletop publishing industry.
[1]: 126 Mort Weisman (father of Jordan) and Ross Babcock announced on January 25, 2001 that FASA would be closing down after publishing its last few products.