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Space Foundation Special Adviser – International Affairs William Van Rensalier Parker was awarded a Distinguished Alumni award from Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., in a ceremony at the college on Sept. 17.  The award honorees are nominated for outstanding contributions to their professions. Parker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and international affairs in 1975. With more than 30 years of extensive…

Do you have a viewpoint on how to maximize the return on extending the International Space Station (ISS) until 2020? The International Space University (ISU) has issued a call for papers on the ISS extension for its 15th Annual International Symposium, which will be held Feb. 15-17, 2011, in Strasbourg, France. The deadline for submitting…

The new U.S. national space policy, released in June 2010, contains significant changes from the previous policy, released in 2006. One example is an expanded list of the ways in which the United States intends to engage in international cooperation on space-related projects, reflecting the increase in the number of countries that are developing or…

The Space Foundation will be front and center this month at the 11th annual Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies (AMOS) conference in Maui, Hawai’i. Involvement includes a reception for young space professionals, education programs for teachers and students and a keynote presentation by Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Holokauahi Pulham. The conference…

China says it has completed assembling the first module for its space station, and the country’s space agency hopes to launch it next year, according to an Aug. 17 Space.com story by Senior Writer Clara Moskowitz. The story quotes China’s Xinhua news agency, saying that the unmanned Tiangong-1 module will lift off on a Chinese…

Relive history and highlights of the U.S. Space Shuttle program on YouTube. Here are some suggestions:  Enterprise – landing test Columbia – pre-dawn launch Challenger – ABC news coverage January 28, 1986 Endeavour – STS-130 pre-dawn launch Discovery – STS-131 launch Atlantis – Blast into Space, Spectacular Fall to Earth  Pictured: Space Shuttle Atlantis soars toward…

The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation has recognized the updated and revised 4th Edition Beer Drinker’s Guide to Colorado as a certified Space Imagination Product. The map integrates enhanced GPS-enabled measurements into the locations and chart data of fourteener* elevations and incorporates new Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model data into the relief map.…

Newly discovered cliffs in the lunar crust indicate the moon shrank globally in the geologically recent past and might still be shrinking today, according to a team analyzing new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft. The results provide important clues to the moon’s recent geologic and tectonic evolution. The moon formed in a…

Elliot Pulham, Space Foundation CEO, moderated a panel discussion on Aug. 31 at the AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition, held Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, at the Anaheim (Calif.) Convention Center. Panelists explored the theme, “Space – Imagine, Innovate, Collaborate,” in relation to their personal experiences and that of their company or organization. In…

The Space Foundation is participating in World Satellite Business Week (WSBW), Sept. 6-10, and the concurrent one-day Symposium on Earth Observation Business on Sept. 9. Both events are in Paris. Produced by Space Foundation partner Euroconsult, WSBW attracts top satellite and launch providers, commercial and investment bankers, insurers, government officials and leading market analysts. These…