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Georgetown Med School Alumnus Researches Gene Therapy, Writes Novel
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 6, 2012) – Fred Ledley (M’78) combines his love of writing and work as a gene therapy researcher in his first published novel, Sputnik’s Child. He says the book shows how baby boomers growing up with the startling discoveries in science of the 1960s and 1970s came to have so much confidence…
Read MoreSpace Watch: February 2012 (Volume: 11, Issue: 2)
The View From Here The View from Here: Human Spaceflight in the Year of the Dragon Second View Second View: Don’t Forget to Dream Space Symposium Neil deGrasse Tyson is Symposium Keynote Speaker Bolden to Share Vision for U.S. Space Program Meet the Mega Minds Top News Space Foundation Elects New Officers, Directors Space Foundation…
Read MoreThe View from Here: Human Spaceflight in the Year of the Dragon
This month’s The View From Here comes to us from the Space Foundation’s new special advisor – human spaceflight, Dr. Leroy Chiao: As Elliot Pulham told you in last month’s Space Watch, the Year of the Dragon is upon us! What does this mean? Dragon years in the Chinese zodiac are particularly special and lucky. Bold…
Read MoreSecond View: Don’t Forget to Dream
Space Watch now includes a monthly feature, called Second View, that shares a viewpoint from a Space Foundation team member. The column complements The View From Here and expands our ability to share Space Foundation views and issues. This column is by Brendan Curry, vice president – Washington operations. As I compose this, the Space…
Read MoreSpace Foundation Index Performance in 4Q2011
The Space Foundation Indexes ended the year in positive territory, outperforming the NASDAQ and S&P 500 for the year. In the fourth quarter of 2011, the Space Foundation Indexes recovered much of the ground lost in the third quarter. The Space Foundation Index grew in the fourth quarter by 12.64 percent and finished the year…
Read MoreCall for Entries!
The 2012 National Security Innovation Competition™ (NSIC), a program of the National Homeland Defense Foundation (NHDF) in Colorado Springs, is accepting applications from college and university teams from across the United States and Canada. Teams are requested to submit a five-page white paper by Feb. 24, 2012. The papers will be vetted by a group of…
Read MoreDoD 2012 Budget Report
The Space Foundation tracked the Fiscal Year 2012 budget request for U.S. Department of Defense space programs through the legislative process. Read the report and other Space Foundation research and anaylsis reports from Washington, D.C. here. The document identifies U.S. Department of Defense space programs and its authorized and appropriated funding levels for FY 2012, as signed…
Read MoreLetter on LightSquared
Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary for the Department of Defense, and John Porcari, deputy secretary for the Department of Transportation, have written a letter to Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary for the Department of Commerce on the LightSquared findings by the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Executive Committee (EXCOM). Letter excerpts state: ….the unanimous conclusion…
Read MoreWhite House Guidance for a 21st Century DoD
President Barack Obama has announced new strategic guidance for a 21st century Department of Defense that will sustain U.S. global leadership and protect its core national interests. As the United States transitions away from two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and confronts defense cuts mandated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, the President outlined…
Read MoreSpace Foundation Co-Hosts Australian Embassy Event
The Space Foundation and Australian Ambassador Kim Beazley hosted a reception at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1 for 200 space leaders from government and industry who joined together in honor of the long space endeavor partnership between the United States and Australia. Representing the Space Foundation board of directors were Chairman…
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