Space Symposium
Pluto New Horizons Exploration Team Earns 2016 John L. "Jack" Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration from Space Foundation
A mission nearly 10 years in the making, New Horizons left Earth on Jan. 19, 2006. Speeding through the Solar System at more than 50,000 miles per hour, the spacecraft completed the first ever flyby of dwarf planet Pluto on July 14, 2015. On the three billion mile journey, New Horizons came within 1.4 million…
Find Out Who's Investing in Space
The world’s top civil, military and commercial space leaders will be at the Space Foundation’s 32nd Space Symposium, April 11-14, 2016, at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA. The four-day Symposium is the leading international space conference for discussing the most pressing global space issues. One of the discussions will be “Who’s Investing in Space,”…
Raytheon's MathAlive! Gives Latest Boost to Space Foundation STEM Education Platform
The Space Foundation opened the first and only science center museum in the Pikes Peak region, the Space Foundation Discovery Center, about three and a half years ago. There have been a lot of exciting events and developments since then, with major sponsors like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, AGI and others helping us create enriching…
Space Watch: February 2016 (Volume: 15, Issue: 2)
The View From Here Raytheon’s MathAlive! Gives Latest Boost to Space Foundation STEM Education Platform Second View The Year of the Monkey & Japan’s Space Efforts Space Symposium Pluto New Horizons Exploration Team Earns 2016 John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration from Space Foundation Register Now for Cyber 1.6 Classified Find Out…
Space Foundation Offers Tesla Destination Charging Station
The Space Foundation has added Tesla Destination Charging to the parking lot of its World Headquarters and Discovery Center in Colorado Springs with the installation of two charging stations, available for free to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Destination charging adds nearly 60 miles of range to Tesla vehicles in…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
Small but Mighty by John Holst, Space Foundation Research Analyst A rocket sat on a Florida launch pad on a late February morning. The rocket, a Saturn 1B, looked almost like a Saturn V rocket. But it was 1966, and the Saturn V was still in development. The S 1B was smaller, about two-thirds the…
How the Corporate Giving Club is Benefiting Colorado
The Space Foundation’s Discovery Center in Colorado Springs is the region’s only space, science and technology attraction, offering formal and informal STEM education programs for schools, families and visitors to the Pikes Peak region. The Space Foundation’s Corporate Giving Club helps companies that want to support STEM programs by enlisting their sponsorship through the new…
USAFA Cadets Pack Up the Big Red Dog at the Discovery Center
In January, the Space Foundation Discovery Center said good-bye to the first traveling exhibit made possible through its new partnership with Pikes Peak Children’s Museum. Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog was an exhibit for very young children that supported literacy and socialization skills, and was extremely popular with preschoolers. The exhibit was packed…
Tesla's Toolbox Project for February is Mars Rover Design Challenge
Tesla’s Toolbox is a new Space Foundation program named for engineer Nikola Tesla, who conducted some of his most creative experiments in Colorado Springs. From the Tesla experiments in electricity in the early 1900s, to current research in aerospace technology, Colorado Springs has long been a source of creativity, and the Space Foundation wants to…
Space Foundation will Bring its Space in the Community Program to Schools in Northern Colorado
The Space Foundation is taking its Space in the Community STEM education program to St. Vrain Valley Schools in northern Colorado in February. Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, Ph.D., will share his experiences in space with students at several St. Vrain Valley Schools in Erie and Longmont, Colo., and will also join a panel discussion…