Report from Headquarters

The Space Foundation kicked off the new year with a new Board of Directors chairman, vice chairman, and secretary and with two new Board members. William F. Ballhaus, Jr., Ph.D., retired president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, will serve a two-year term as the chairman. He is also chairman of the Board’s Finance…

Outgoing Space Foundation Chairman Gen Thomas S. Moorman, USAF (Retired), has been made a lifetime director emeritus of the Space Foundation. The former vice chief of staff of the United States Air Force served on the Space Foundation Board from 1997-2010. he served as secretary from 2004-2006, as vice chairman from 2006-2008, and as chairman of the Board…

A generous donation from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has launched a new space education lab in Colorado Springs – the AGI Space Missions Simulator at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute. AGI, headquartered in Exton, Pa., donated software, licensing, and new computer equipment valued at more than $3 million to establish the education lab, which will…

In January, the Space Foundation brought former astronaut and Navy captain Wendy B. Lawrence to Colorado Springs to speak to all-girl audiences at several local schools, part of an outreach effort to inspire girls’ interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). CAPT Lawrence spoke to girls at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy, Galilio School of…

The Space Foundation saw a number of triumphs and accomplishments during the past year that moved the organization even further as the leading advocate for space. National Space Symposium Most Successful Ever With more than 8,000 attendees, including space and defense professionals, educators, students, exhibitors, speakers, and sponsors, the 25th National Space Symposium was the…

The Space Foundation is expanding its nationally known Space Across the Curriculum educator professional development courses by adding a week of classes specifically for teachers of PreK-2nd grade students. Beginning in the summer of 2010, the new course will join the Space Foundation’s other six classes for grade PreK-high school teachers. Piloted Dec. 3-4 with Charles County Public Schools in Charles County, Md., the…

The Space Foundation conducted a team-teaching in-service rocketry workshop for 10 Charles County (Md.) Public School 5th grade science teachers on Dec. 7 that provided ideas and lessons the teachers could take directly back to their classrooms. Space Foundation Aerospace Education Specialists Bobby Gagnon and Melissa Peterson used standards-based activities to show the teachers how to integrate rocketry into…

In December, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center opened an exhibition of space art: NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration. Scheduled to run through March 7, and organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, the…

The deadline is approaching to nominate an educator to receive the 2010 Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award. Given by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Space Foundation, the award will be presented on April 12 during the Opening Ceremony of the 26th National Space Symposium at…

Last June, Space Foundation partner Toffler Associates held a meeting in conjunction with the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum: New York where public and private sector leaders discussed the future of the space industry. Toffler Associates combined input from this group with its own observations, research, and experience, plus data from The Space Report: The…