Space Foundation Press Releases
Strategic Space Symposium Confirms Featured Speakers
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 10, 2009) — An impressive slate of featured speakers has been confirmed for the Strategic Space Symposium, including: Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, USAF, commander, U.S. Strategic Command; Vice Adm. Carl V. Mauney, USN, deputy commander, United States Strategic Command; Lt. Gen. Kevin Campbell, USA, commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense; Lt.…
Space Foundation Teacher Liaison is AFA Teacher of the Year
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 4, 2009) — It all started with an e-mail. Liz Dalzell doesn’t remember the details, or how the e-mail found its way to her, but it led her to enroll in her first Space Foundation Space Discovery Institute rocketry class in 2007. She liked it so much she enrolled in more…
Space Watch: August 2009 (Volume: 8, Issue: 8)
The View From Here We Must Renew Investment in Space Spotlight Apollo 11 Stories: Hope, Inspiration, Awe and Pride Apollo 11 Recollections #1 Apollo 11 Recollections #2 Apollo 11 Recollections #3 Apollo 11 Recollections #4 Apollo 11 Recollections #5 Apollo 11 Recollections #6 Apollo 11 Recollections #7 Apollo 11 Recollections #8 Apollo 11 Recollections #9…
We Must Renew Investment in Space
This month’s The View from Here is a reprint of a letter sent to Norman Augustine, chairman of the Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee from Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham. The committee, which comprises a broad spectrum of space experts and was chartered by President Barack Obama, has been charged with…
Apollo 11 Stories: Hope, Inspiration, Awe and Pride
During July, the Space Foundation asked our Space Watch readers, staff members, friends, and colleagues to tell us where they were on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon (Crewmate Michael Collins piloted the Command Module during the historic mission). We were overwhelmed…
Apollo 11 Recollections #1
Inspiration Didn’t Require Observation Well at that time, I wasn’t born yet, but I was inspired when I first heard it when I was nine years old. My parents were in the Philippines when that special amazing event happened. – Christopher Adan G.Calubaquib, Jr. Will Always Remember Parents’ Excitement All the neighbor kids were outside…
Letter Urges Obama to Modernize Export Controls
The Space Foundation is among 14 organizations signing a July 13 letter to President Barack Obama encouraging U.S. export control modernization to improve the United States’ technological competitiveness. The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness, which was formed in 2007 to draw attention to the need for fundamental export control modernization, asked the president to “adopt…
Washington Abuzz with Space Activity
On July 28, the Space Foundation, in partnership with the National Defense Industrial Association, held the second Space Power Lecture Series breakfast of the year, with Dr. Peter Wegner, director of the Operationally Responsive Space Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., as the featured speaker. Dr. Wegner spoke to an audience of Congressional members and…
Space Foundation Applauds NASA Confirmations
On July 15, Major General Charles Bolden, USMC (Ret.) was confirmed as the 12th NASA Administrator and Lori Garver was confirmed as NASA Deputy Administrator. Both began their new positions on July 17. “Charlie Bolden is an American hero who brings deep NASA knowledge and experience, and unsurpassed leadership skills to the key position of…
Dr. Peter Wegner Speaks at Space Power Lecture
Dr. Peter Wegner, director of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., addressed an audience of 62 government and industry leaders and Congressional members and their staffs at a Space Power Lecture Breakfast July 28 in Washington, D.C. The breakfast was jointly sponsored by the Space Foundation and the National Defense…