Space Awareness

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…

The recently released Space Foundation report on the state of NASA and its potential future, PIONEERING: Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Space, addresses a number of aspects of the agency’s performance and culture. It focuses on high-level issues at the agency and addresses performance and culture. While not specifically covered in the report, a frequently noted concern…

The Space Foundation is partnering with the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum to support a special traveling exhibit from the Charles M. Schulz Museum called To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA. The exhibition, which runs Nov. 17 through April 20, examines the history of Apollo 10 and the role characters from Schulz’s popular Peanuts comic strip…

Stargazers worldwide were treated to a real show during the third weekend of October when the Orionid meteor shower sent bits and pieces of Halley’s Comet falling down to Earth. The meteor shower peaked in the early morning hours of Sunday, Oct. 21. For those who could not see the falling stars in person from…

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As NASA’s Curiosity rover explores the surface of Mars, scientists and engineers are hard at work on future planetary science missions. These missions provide insight into how planets and other celestial bodies are formed, the processes that shape their internal structure, land forms and atmospheres. Upcoming Missions The next mission to Mars, the Mars Atmospheric…

There’s lots of information in this issue of Space Watch about the new Space Foundation Northrop Grumman Science Center featuring Science On a Sphere®, but for something different, take a look at this YouTube video of Science off the Sphere, here. Here is a video of International Space Station Commander Suni Williams completing the 2012…

Last month, Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham was the featured guest on radio program Space Talk with Jim Banke, a weekly, one-hour radio program that originates on Florida’s Space Coast, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Pulham talked about top events at the Space Foundation, the importance of…

The Space Foundation welcomes ScienSonic Laboratories as its newest Certified Imagination Partner. The Space Foundation grants Certified Imagination Product status through its Space CertificationTM program to products and services that increase interest in and excitement for space and inspire new generations to take an active interest in space. “Whether we realize it or not, we…

Following its stunning (and suspenseful) touchdown on Mars on Aug. 6, the Curiosity rover has been sending back never-before-seen images of the red planet.  Some images are historical (first transmission shown at left; panorama, shown above) and some are just plain silly (below right). To see the official NASA file, go here. See the landing…