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Top Canadian General Praises Partnership with United States during 9/11 Event
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Canada sent its top general to Cheyenne Mountain Space Force Station in Colorado Springs to celebrate the bi-national partnership that has kept the continent safe for a quarter century after the notorious terrorist strikes. Canadian Forces Gen. Jennie Carignan joined U.S. military leaders near a monument to…
Space Command Wraps Up Wargames to Simulate Future Orbital Fights
Three weeks of space wargames that demonstrated future national security needs wrapped up Tuesday, U.S. Space Command announced. The Apollo Maneuvers tested the command’s plans for “maneuver warfare” in orbit. It’s a new doctrine that Space Command’s Gen. Stephen Whiting announced during Space Foundation‘s 41st Space Symposium in April. The command compared the exercise to…
Congress Avoids Government Shutdown Ahead of Midterms
Congress avoided an Oct. 1 government shutdown as the U.S. House approved a continuing resolution (CR) Tuesday. The measure ensures government funding through Dec. 11. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the measure into law. House members gave bipartisan approval with a 370-48 vote. The Senate approved the agreement last month. The temporary budget…
SpaceX IPO Closes Higher Than $160 Per Share
First-Day Trading Makes Elon Musk World’s First Trillionaire Like so many of its products, SpaceX launched its IPO on Friday to worldwide fanfare, and by closing bell, its debut stock price settled into orbit well above any other publicly traded space company. Trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol SPCX, SpaceX opened at $150…
Space Foundation Premieres National Space Day Video May 1
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 9, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, will premiere its National Space Day educational video on Friday, May 1, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. MT, inviting students, educators and families to explore the future of space through engaging STEM content. Hosted…
Artemis II Sets Distance Record and Names Craters During Science Survey
Astronauts aboard Artemis II became the first humans to fly more than 250,000 miles from Earth just before noon on Monday as their Orion crew capsule passed the Moon on a figure-8 flight back to Earth, where they are expected to splash down off the California coast on Friday. Artemis II surpassed Apollo 13’s record…
How the Artemis II Mission Lifted 6 Million Pounds Into Space
When a launch vehicle the size of Artemis II takes off, the roar shakes everything around it for miles. The brightness of the flames burns like the sun. This fusion of spectacle and science is sending humans toward the Moon for the first time in more than half a century. In just a few days,…
Artemis II Successfully Launches 4 Astronauts Toward the Moon
For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are leaving Earth’s orbit. NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) took off from Kennedy Space Center at 6:35:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time on a mission that will set the stage for U.S. lunar habitation by 2028. As the 322-foot-tall launch vehicle thundered into the sky,…
Space Foundation Statement on Artemis II Launch
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 1, 2026 — Heather Pringle, CEO of Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, issued the following statement today on the successful launch of Artemis II: “Today, people around the world share this generation’s Moon moment and celebrate the Artemis II crew and the extraordinary team supporting…
Veteran Lockheed Martin Engineer Driving Artemis Beyond Apollo’s Success
Blaine Brown has worked 40 years for Lockheed Martin and spent half his career on the Orion spacecraft. He remains as enthusiastic about human spaceflight as he was in the 1980s. “The pay is good, but there are a lot of easier jobs you could have and make money,” said Brown, who joined the Orion project at its earliest stage in 2005. “The inspiration…