Space Foundation CEO Featured on The Space Show

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jan. 6, 2011) — Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham was the featured guest on The Space Show, a radio broadcast that focuses on issues influencing outer-space commerce and space tourism, on Jan. 5. To listen to the hour-long broadcast, click here.

During the broadcast, Pulham talked with host Dr. David Livingston and responded the calls and emails from listeners. Topics included:

• The need for sustained investment in new technologies
• Whether fundamental research should be in the private or public domain
• The factors that motivate – and fail to motivate – the development of new space technologies
• NASA’s role in space research and how government funding policies and priorities hamper NASA’s success
• The need for international collaboration in space
• The decline of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) proficiency in the U.S. and potential Solutions

Pulham, a recognized space expert and advocate, is frequently sought out by the media to provide independent, unbiased insight into space issues.