Spotlight
Space Foundation Forms New Partnerships
The Space Foundation has formed new strategic partnerships with two organizations: The Coalition for Space Exploration (CSE), a volunteer organization committed to ensuring the United States remains the leader in space, science and technology by reinforcing the value and benefits of space exploration with the public and national leaders, and building lasting support for a…
Best Wishes For A Healthy New Year….
As many of us make New Year’s Resolutions for healthier lifestyles, space products and services are playing a critical role in the science, biotechnology and health care sectors. A variety of new tools, techniques and technologies have emerged that benefit dentistry, general health and breast cancer detection. Monitoring devices, including those allowing remote access, also…
Space Foundation Helps NORAD Track Santa
Space Foundation team members Janet Stevens, Margo Hatton and Bernadette Sormani got into the holiday spirit along with members of their families on Christmas Eve by answering phone calls and emails for the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s NORAD Tracks Santa Program. NORAD Tracks Santa is a Certified Imagination Product in the Space Foundation’s Space…
CEO Speaks at Florida Summit
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham delivered the keynote address at a meeting of leaders from key space states in Orlando in December, encouraging the states to work together to promote a strong NASA exploration program and inspire a new generation of explorers while liberating U.S. companies to compete globally. The conference, organized by the Eisenhower Center…
Green is Symposium Poster Artist
One of the most treasured keepsakes from the Space Foundation’s annual National Space Symposium is the commemorative space art poster, co-sponsored in 2012 by International Space University (ISU). The poster will be distributed to Symposium attendees from the Space Foundation booth at the Ball Aerospace Exhibit Center. The poster art for the 28th National Space…
Symposium Features Launchers Panel
The Space Foundation has assembled a dynamic panel for the first morning of its 28th National Space Symposium featuring presidents of leading launch companies. The panel, “Launch Providers, Propulsion Partners and the Way to Space,” includes: Michael Gass, president and CEO, United Launch Alliance James Maser, president, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) Francis X. McKenna,…
Space Certification Partner Wins Award
Space Foundation Certification Partner and Space Technology Hall of Fame® inductee Outlast® impressed the international jury of Techtextil (International Trade Fair for Technical Textiles and Nonwovens) and won the Techtextil Innovation Prize 2011 in the category “New Materials” for the development of the world’s first heat-managing polyester fiber with phase change materials (PCM). Outlast PCM has…
Art Contest Deadline is This Month
The Space Foundation invites students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, or equivalent, throughout the world to enter original artwork depicting the theme “Space is Infinite – Explore!” for an opportunity to receive national recognition and to win prizes, and an invitation to attend an awards ceremony at the 28th National Space Symposium, to be held…
Author Mark Stevenson Hosts Hall of Fame Dinner
London-based author, comedian and innovation expert Mark Stevenson will headline the annual Space Technology Hall of Fame® dinner on April 19, 2012, at the 28th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. Stevenson’s book, An Optimist’s Tour of the Future, has been called “a coherent and entertaining journey through the world…
Space Foundation Hosts Second China Delegation
In November, the Space Foundation led our second delegation to visit space facilities in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The visit was at the invitation of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which sent a group to the Space Foundation-hosted 27th National Space Symposium last April. Led by Space Foundation Senior Vice President -…