Space Watch: April 2015 (Volume: 14, Issue: 4)

The View From Here Ready to Launch — the most powerful Space Symposium ever! Second View Let’s Meet at Space Foundation Yuri’s Night! Space Symposium NASA Administrator Bolden is Corporate Partnership Dinner Speaker Gen. Hyten Joins Cyber 1.5 Roster of Featured Speakers Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center Sells Out for 31st Space Symposium AFA to Integrate…

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Ready to Launch — the most powerful Space Symposium ever!

From the opening ceremony featuring Japan’s enra dance troupe, to a panel discussion featuring the heads of 12 prominent space agencies from around the world, to feature plenary sessions starring space leaders from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Latin America — the 31st Space Symposium, April 13-16, looks to be…

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Let's Meet at Space Foundation Yuri's Night!

Hello from Space Foundation World Headquarters in Colorado Springs. I’d like to introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me. Until a few months ago, I was known as Lt. Col. Shelli Brunswick, USAF. In January, I returned home to Colorado Springs after 29 years in the Air Force, and am now known…

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NASA Administrator Bolden is Corporate Partnership Dinner Speaker

NASA Administrator Maj. Gen. Charles F. Bolden, Jr., USMC (Ret.), will be the featured speaker at the 31st Space Symposium’s Corporate Partnership Dinner. A key event at the annual Space Symposium, the Corporate Partnership Dinner recognizes the organizations that support Space Foundation education, research, analysis, policy and space awareness programs. The dinner will be held…

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Gen. Hyten Joins Cyber 1.5 Roster of Featured Speakers

Gen. John E. Hyten, USAF, Commander, Air Force Space Command, will complete the roster of cyberspace professionals slated to speak at the Space Foundation’s Cyber 1.5 conference on April 13. Hyten is responsible for organizing, equipping, training and maintaining mission-ready space and cyberspace forces and capabilities for North American Aerospace Defense Command, U.S. Strategic Command…

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Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center Sells Out for 31st Space Symposium

The Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center is sold out for the 31st Space Symposium, with more than 150 exhibits of the world’s latest space technology, products and services, more than 30 first-time exhibitors and more than a dozen countries represented, including: Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom…

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AFA to Integrate Space Competiton with Space Symposium

The Air Force Association (AFA) will use its StellarXplorers group and opportunities at the 31st Space Symposium to inspire Colorado students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).  On the morning of Wednesday, April 15, five teams of high school students will gather at the Space Foundation Discovery Center in Colorado Springs…

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STEM Education Gets Boost from Grant to Establish Lockheed Martin Space Education Center

More than 8,000 students and teachers to annually benefit from Lockheed Martin’s generosity by Gina Taranto, Space Foundation Director – Philanthropy A grant from Lockheed Martin Corporation for an education center at Space Foundation’s World Headquarters and Discovery Center directly benefits children and educators, especially those at schools serving large concentrations of low-income and under-represented…

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Get Discounted Tickets for Space Foundation Yuri's Night and Support STEM Education

Located in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation Discovery Center is the site of formal and informal science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in Colorado. Daily admission and Passport membership sales, help support the Space Foundation’s education mission, and on April 12 there will be a special public fundraising event. Join the Space Foundation Yuri’s…

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Remembering Leonard Nimoy

Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham was asked by Fox News to write a remembrance of Leonard Nimoy at the time of his passing. Pulham got to know Nimoy when he attended the Space Foundation’s 26th Space Symposium in 2010. Nimoy was the recipient of the Space Foundation’s Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award…

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