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Students in PreK-12th grade are invited to enter the Space Foundation art contest, “Human Space Travel in the Year 2020.” Students whose entries are selected for grand prize and first place will have the opportunity to meet former NASA astronaut Capt. Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., USN (Retired), when he announces the winners on Wednesday afternoon, April 13,…

Own a strikingly beautiful matted and framed original Space Shuttle art print autographed by selected Space Shuttle Commanders and support Space Foundation education programs. During the 27th National Space Symposium, the Space Foundation will auction six original works of art based on NASA Space Shuttle photography – one for each of the Space Shuttle vehicles.…

Aerojet, a GenCorp company and Space Foundation Corporate Patron Partner, announced that its engines contributed to Space Shuttle Discovery’s (STS-133) on-orbit operations and successful docking to the International Space Station (ISS). Discovery lifted off Feb. 24 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked with the ISS on Feb. 26. Discovery is delivering the…

Of special interest to the commercial aerospace industry will be a panel discussion on the last day of the 27th National Space Symposium – “The Government Buys Commercial.” Moderated by Paul L. Graziani, chief executive officer and founder of Analytical Graphics Inc., (AGI), panel members include: Charles S. Baker, acting director, Office of Space Commercialization,…

Several changes were made to the Space Foundation’s Board of Directors at the organization’s annual meeting in January as three new members were added and two retired. The new board members are: Gary W. Ervin, corporate vice president and president of Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems; James Maser, president of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne; Kay Sears, president of…

As part of the planned move to a new headquarters facility in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation has been designated as an El Paso County (Colo.) Enterprise Zone project. This means that contributions of $250 to $100,000 made to the Space Foundation are now eligible for a 25 percent Colorado state tax credit and that…

Astronaut Piers Sellers has been awarded an OBE, Order of the British Empire, in recoginition of his contributions to science. Born in East Sussex, UK, Dr. Sellers became an American citizen and flew on three space shuttle missions, most recently in May 2010.  According to the BBC, Sellers is one of only five UK-born people to have flown in…

As NASA and its partners complete the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS), the facility and its expanded six-person crews are now able to devote more time to new research. Despite the limitations on crew size and facilities during the assembly phase of the station, NASA performed more than 100 experiments there during the…

NORAD Tracks Santa, which is designated by the Space Foundation as a Certified Imagination ProductTM, logged a record number of phone calls and emails on Christmas Eve 2010. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) runs the program, which for more than 50 years has tracked Santa and provided updates to children around the world.…

NASA has opened online voting for its Optimus Prime Spinoff Award student video contest. The public is invited to vote for its favorite videos, made by students in grades three through eight, developed to help educate America’s youth about the benefits of NASA’s technologies. A panel of NASA judges will select the winners in each…