February 2009

February 2009: Vol. 8, No. 2

Elliot Holokauahi Pulham, Chief Executive Officer

National Space Investment is the Ultimate Economic Stimulus Package

Unless something dramatic happens between composing this missive and publishing it, the newly hopeful United States, under the leadership of the "Yes, We Can!" Obama administration, will commence February 2009 without a NASA administrator, and with no apparent overarching strategy for integrating NASA in a deeply impactful way into the much ballyhooed economic stimulus plan. It's an ironic, nay, tragic, twist of events: the President who was elected in part on the backbone of the strongest, most well-articulated space policy platform since Lyndon Johnson has yet to indicate how he plans to integrate NASA into a leading role in the nation's economic, technologic, national security, and foreign policies. ...

Spotlight

25th National Space Symposium Looks at The Next Space Age

Space Commanders Forum Special Presentation at 25th National Space Symposium

Space Foundation Selects 29 Teacher Liaisons

The Honorable Peter B. Teets to Receive 2009 Gen. James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award

Report from Headquarters

Space Foundation Brings Excitement of Space to 15 Chicago School Districts

Water Security Corporation Goes Exclusive

2009 Space Foundation Corporate Members

The Space Foundation Recognizes New Corporate Members, Cobham, Jacobs, and WP Aerospace.

Stevens New Director of Communications and Public Outreach for Space Foundation

Report from Washington, D.C.