Education
Teacher Liaisons Embrace World Space Week
Many of the more than 200 teachers currently involved in the Space Foundation’s Teacher Liaison program have activities planned for World Space Week, held annually Oct. 4-10. One outstanding example is the Space Foundation’s first international Teacher Liaison Vandana Suryawanshi. She and her principal Nalini Sengupta have planned a full week of space activities for…
Space Foundation Participates in STEM Events at Adams State University
The Space Foundation participated in several special events open to the community in Alamosa, Colo., on Sept. 6-7 in conjunction with Adams State University (ASU)’s Zacheis Planetarium Grand Re-Opening Celebration. The activities, supported by a $3.6 million grant to ASU from the U.S. Department of Education’s Hispanic Serving Institutions STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) program, included:…
Astronaut Metcalf-Lindenburger Inspires Girls
Astronaut Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger was the headliner at Girls STEM Day on Sept. 28 at CSU- Pueblo, an educational event sponsored by the Space Foundation and Colorado State University-Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) and co-sponsored by El Pomar Foundation, the Women’s Foundation of Colorado and the Pueblo Marriott. At the event, more than 125 6th-8th grade girls, many…
The Space Report Chronicles Upcoming Missions
As NASA’s Curiosity rover explores the surface of Mars, scientists and engineers are hard at work on future planetary science missions. These missions provide insight into how planets and other celestial bodies are formed, the processes that shape their internal structure, land forms and atmospheres. Upcoming Missions The next mission to Mars, the Mars Atmospheric…
Watch Great Space Videos on YouTube
There’s lots of information in this issue of Space Watch about the new Space Foundation Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere®, but for something different, take a look at this YouTube video of Science off the Sphere, here. Here is a video of International Space Station Commander Suni Williams completing the 2012…
Pulham Featured Guest on "Space Talk" – Hear it Here
Last month, Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham was the featured guest on radio program Space Talk with Jim Banke, a weekly, one-hour radio program that originates on Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Pulham talked about top events at the Space Foundation, the importance of…
NASA Testifies about Industry Partnerships
At the House Science, Space and Technology Committee September hearing on “Recent Developments in NASA’s Commercial Crew Acquisition Strategy,” NASA testified that the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) will enable industry partners to advance the integrated critical design of their planned crew transportation systems. This includes the crew spacecraft, launch vehicle, ground systems and mission…
House Introduces Space Leadership Preservation Act
On Sept. 20, six members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Space Leadership Preservation Act (H.R. 6491), which is aimed at providing NASA with more stability and predictability. Among other things H.R. 6491 would do are: Create a 10-year term for the NASA administrator Establish a board of directors to provide a quadrennial…
Senate Committee Hearing Raises Beyond-LEO Concerns
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing last month on “The Path from LEO to Mars,” which examined NASA’s exploration portfolio, both robotic and human, beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) to the surface of Mars. Steve Squyres, Ph.D., testified that there are two areas of concern regarding getting beyond LEO and eventually…
Industry Stresses Need for Continued SLS, Orion Crew Capsule Funding
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Committee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing in September on “Examining NASA’s Development of the Space Launch System and Orion Crew Capsule” at which representatives from industry testified that Orion is currently advancing toward its Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1) in 2014. EFT-1 mission…