Space Foundation News
Summer Space Foundation Space Across the Curriculum Courses Begin
Space Foundation Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development courses started this week at two locations in Colorado Springs, Colo. These intensive week-long graduate-level courses for pre-k – 12 educators provide space-related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) content that is instantly transferable to the classroom. All courses are hands-on and focus on national standards…
Space Foundation Issues Statement on Passing of Author Ray Bradbury
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 6, 2012) – The Space Foundation issued a statement today expressing sadness at the death of writer Ray Bradbury, who often wrote about space themes and was author of such science fiction works as The Martian Chronicles. “Ray Bradbury’s creativity was legendary. Many of his works showed a remarkable ability to…
Space Foundation Student Art Contest is on Display
Winning artwork from the Space Foundation 2012 Student Art Contest is now on display at three Pikes Peak Library District locations through the month of June. The winning artwork can be seen at Old Colorado City and Sand Creek Libraries in Colorado Springs, and at High Prairie Library in Falcon, Colo. Each year, the Space Foundation…
Teachers: Scholarships Are Still Available for Space Across the Curriculum Professional Development Courses This Summer
Teachers, it’s not too late to sign up for this summer’s Space Foundation’s Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development courses. Educators who want to improve their classroom skills, better motivate their students and – potentially – earn a master’s degree may sign up now using this form. These intensive week-long graduate-level courses for pre-k -…
Space Foundation Congratulates SpaceX on Historic Docking With International Space Station
Space Foundation Corporate Member SpaceX celebrated two historic successes this week with Tuesday’s launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Friday’s docking of the Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS Expedition 31 crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the station’s robotic arm at…
Free Rocketry Course for Pueblo D60 Teachers
The Space Foundation is offering a week-long graduate level rocketry course at Colorado State University – Pueblo, June 25-29. Rocketry: The Future of Human Space Flight is offered free to Pueblo D60 teachers. The course is also open to all other teachers, but they would pay a $175 materials fee. Participants in this course will…
Tyson Talks with Rocky Mountain PBS About the Inspiration of Space and Killer Asteroid
During the Space Foundation’s 28th National Space Symposium last month in Colorado Springs, Colo., Symposium Keynote Speaker Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson sat down with Rocky Mountain PBS for two different interviews for the program Colorado State of Mind. In one interview, the well-known astrophysicist, director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, bestselling author and one of…
Water Filtration Design Challenge Demonstrates Link Between Space and a Better Life on Earth
Join the Space Foundation on Tuesday evening, May 8, for the Water Filtration Design Challenge, a fun and educational exercise for children and adults that includes creating a water filtration system based on processes used aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The event, which will be held at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute at 105 Coleridge…
National Space Symposium Covered in Space Watch
This – and the next two – issues of Space Watch will be filled with coverage of last month’s 28th National Space Symposium and its companion Cyber 1.2 event, held April 16-19 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The articles are spread throughout several categories of this Space Watch publication, so you’ll see both the National Space Symposium and Cyber 1.2 crop up…
Northrop Grumman to Fund Space Foundation Science Center
Northrop Grumman Corp. made an exciting announcement during the 28th National Space Symposium: it is donating $375,000 to create a science center and teaching lab at the Space Foundation’s Colorado Springs world headquarters. To be known as the Northrop Grumman Science Center, the facility will include a Science On a Sphere® laboratory and a teaching…