Space Foundation Press Releases
Space Foundation Promotes STEM at USA Science & Engineering Festival
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 20, 2010) — The Space Foundation is demonstrating how astronauts conduct experiments on the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Oct. 23-24 at the inaugural USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. Using gloveboxes similar to the ones used in space to prevent experiments from floating away and to…
Space Foundation Offers 'Play Along' Help During Elections
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 15, 2010) — Tracking how the upcoming elections could affect space policy is a daunting task. To help companies and individuals keep track of potential impact on committees and positions in Congress that oversee space policy, the Space Foundation has prepared a document that lists all the U.S. House and Senate…
Space Foundation's 2010 Swigert Award Winner Honored by Popular Mechanics
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 14, 2010) — NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which was honored earlier this year by the Space Foundation with the John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration, has won Popular Mechanics’ 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The Swigert Award is given…
OEL Launches Utility Base Layers: Structurewear Powered by Outlast® Technology
BOULDER, Colo. (Oct. 12, 2010) – Outlast Technologies, leader in heat management and moisture reduction in performance wear, announces new licensee OEL Worldwide Industries is launching Structurewear – an all-purpose line of base layers featuring Outlast® heat management technology. Delivering superior comfort and performance, OEL Structurewear is designed to be worn under any work uniform,…
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner Features Best-Selling Author and Political Satirist P.J. O'Rourke
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 11, 2010) — The nation’s premier political satirist will be speaking at the nation’s premier gathering of space professionals when he headlines the annual Space Technology Hall of Fame® dinner on April 14, 2011, at the 27th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. Presented annually by…
ISU Students Track Airplanes from the Stratosphere
KIRUNA, Sweden (Oct. 9, 2010) – An experiment, designed, built and tested by a team of three students at the International Space University (ISU) successfully launched on-board a stratospheric balloon from Esrange Space Center in the Swedish Arctic. The experiment, called I-BATE (ISU-Balloon Air Traffic control Experiment), relayed aircraft transponder signals back to the students monitoring…
NASA Launches OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 8, 2010) — NASA has launched a video contest for students, grades 3-8, that raises awareness of how NASA technologies contribute to our everyday lives. The awards will be presented next April during the Space Foundation’s 27th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Colo. The contest has…
27th National Space Symposium to Feature Two Space Shuttle Events
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 7, 2010) — During its 30 years of service, the Space Shuttle changed almost everything we know about human space flight: it spawned countless discoveries that have improved both space travel and everyday life on Earth, it facilitated ground-breaking research, it made “routine space flight” possible and it created thousands of…
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Inductee wins 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 6, 2010) — Randy Kimble, Ph.D., who was inducted into the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame® in 1997, is among three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who have been honored with the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. About Kimble Kimble, who now works on the…
Countdown Begins for 27th National Space Symposium
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 5, 2010) — The countdown has begun for the 27th National Space Symposium, which is set for April 11-14 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Space Foundation is offering a Super Early Bird rate with up to $500 in savings for industry attendees who register before Jan. 14,…