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I Understood it was Something Important I was eight. At home. The TV was black and white (and you actually had to get off the couch to change the channel). The memory is clear in my mind so I guess I understood it was something important, but it probably wasn’t until a few years later…

Expected with Certainty, and Welcomed with Eager Anticipation In the summer of 1969, the summer I turned 18, I shared with millions of people the experience of watching a live transmission of a human being walking on the moon. A few days before that I shared an equally momentous experience with a much smaller percentage…

Following is President John F. Kennedy’s historic speech about his plan to put a man on the Moon within 10 years.  It was delivered Sept. 12, 1962, at Rice University in Houston, Texas.  Almost seven years later, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the first human footprints in the Lunar dust.  Note: The…

AVIATION WEEK President Tom Henricks opened the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum: New York with a comprehensive overview of the space economy and the outlook for the future. The event, which was presented by the Space Foundation in association with Toffler Associates June 4 in New York City, examined the financial outlook and opportunities in…

The Space Foundation’s summer is filled with rockets, cave-crawls, and swimming pool micrgravity simulations – all part of the various curricula for Space Discovery Institutes, which teach teachers how to use space to teach a broad range of subjects for elementary through high school sudents. The summer kicked off with two consecutive weeks at the University of…

Based on information excerpted from The Space Report 2009: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity. With the growing interest in personal spaceflight, several locations have been suggested for future suborbital spaceports. Since most of these proposed spaceports are still in early stages of conceptual development, here is a summary of two suborbital spaceport proposals…

The Strategic Space Symposium, set for Nov. 2-4 , 2009, at the Qwest Center Omaha in Omaha, Neb., will offer space and defense professionals an unparalleled opportunity for education, interactive discussion, and exposure to the latest space operations technologies. Co-sponsored by the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) and the Space Foundation, the event is expected…

As the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission approaches, the Space Foundation wants to know where you were and what you were thinking on the historic evening of July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong placed the first human footprint in the Lunar Dust (and took this historic picture of Buzz Aldrin, while Michael Collins…

In yet another example of the ways space inventions make life on Earth better, a Boulder, Colo., firm has launched a rehydration product that helps prevent loss of body fluids during heavy exercise, heat exposure and illness. Originally developed by NASA Ames Research Center to keep astronauts at peak performance during missions, the electrolyte concentrate…

Spaceports operate around the world, offering different capabilities and scales of operation – ranging from a basic control center, transportation infrastructure and launch platform to highly sophisticated facilities such as Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. KSC and the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome are the oldest and    most advanced. But, they are not alone. Following is…