Space Awareness
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
A Beef with the “Molly Brown:” Gemini 3 As St. Patrick’s Day approaches with the promise of corned beef, we remember an infamous incident when two NASA astronauts shared a corned beef sandwich in their capsule in space. The astronauts, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom and John Young, didn’t eat much of the sandwich, just a…
Two Long-time Space Certification Corporate Member Partners Highlighted
By Rebecca Williams, Space Awareness Program Coordinator As the 31st Space Symposium quickly approaches, I would like to highlight two of our Space Certification Corporate Member Partners whose technology has been inducted into the prestigious Space Technology Hall of Fame®. The Space Technology Hall of Fame® comprises many extraordinary innovations – all derived from, or…
Read Leroy Chiao Article in Scientific American
An article by Leroy Chiao, Ph.D., the Space Foundation’s Special Advisor – Human Spaceflight, was recently published in Scientific American. Chiao’s work with the Space Foundation includes space advocacy through media interviews, presentations and STEM education outreach. He frequently conducts GlobalCasts from the Space Foundation’s World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, which are transmitted to schools…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
This is the first in a new monthly series in Space Watch – Apollo 50th Anniversary Moments February 16, 1965 Apollo Test Flight SA-9 On Feb. 16, 1965, NASA successfully conducted the third test flight of the Apollo Saturn launch vehicle program, with the launch of a two stage Saturn-I rocket carrying simulated Apollo command…
Space Journalists Who Get it Right
In the December issue of Space Watch, Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham wrote in his View From Here column about the role of journalists who cover space. He cited some who “…cover our industry with objectivity, journalistic know-how and a solid knowledge base…” and he listed a few names of those who excel…
Witnessing History Firsthand
By Colleen Parith, Space Foundation Marketing & Communications Specialist NASA chose 150 social media “gurus” from more than 3,000 applications from around the world to cover the EFT-1 Orion Launch as a part of the NASA Social program, and I was one of them. The NASA Social program is designed to allow social media users to…
Explore Space Online
What does the Internet have to offer space fans? Plenty, such as… Watch a robot at work on the International Space Station, here See a time lapse view of Earth from the ISS, here See a digital globe in South Africa, here Space.com has the best space photos of the week, here And finally, check out…
New Discoveries for NASA Kepler Mission
In 2012, the Space Foundation presented the NASA Kepler Mission with the John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration for the discovery of 61 confirmed extrasolar planets and over 2,300 planet candidates in the first 16 months of observations from May 2009 to September 2010. Now NASA reports that the Kepler Mission has…
DigitalGlobe To Merge with GeoEye
In January, the Department of Justice gave DigitalGlobe, a global provider of commercial high-resolution earth imagery products and services, antitrust clearance to merge with GeoEye, a provider of geospatial intelligence solutions. The merger was driven by projected U.S. government budget cuts to the EnhancedView contract, which was a $7.3 billion vehicle for purchasing commercial satellite data.…
Star Watching Tips from the Space Foundation
Space Foundation space education specialist Elias Molen was recently interviewed by the Denver Post for an article about star gazing. In it, he recommended smartphone applications for finding constellations, including: Star Walk, Google Sky Map, Starry Night and Planets. “Families just bring up the night sky on their smart phones,” Molen was quoted in the…