Space Foundation News & Media
AGI Grant Funds Laboratory Upgrades
A $15,000 grant from Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) is providing upgrades for the Space Foundation’s AGI Space Missions Simulation Laboratory, located at its Discovery Center in Colorado Springs. The grant will provide memory and processor updates for all the computers, plus other technology and environment upgrades. The AGI Space Missions Simulation Laboratory teaches STEM principles…
Save the Date for Yuri's Night – April 10 at the Discovery Center
In 2015, the Space Foundation started its own Yuri’s Night celebration, a new tradition to launch Space Symposium week in Colorado Springs. In 2016, Space Foundation Yuri’s Night will be held at the Discovery Center on Sunday, April 10, ushering in the return of the world’s leading space professionals to Colorado Springs for the annual…
What It's Like to be Honorary Commander, 22nd Space Operations
by Bernadette Maisel, Space Foundation Director – Customer Care. Maisel was recently selected as Honorary Commander, 22nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. The 22nd Space Operations Squadron is a U.S. Air Force unit of the 50th Network Operations Group, a part of the 50th Space Wing. On Oct. 19, I had the opportunity…
Space Certification Promotes Space Technology
The Space Foundation builds awareness of the benefits of space through our Space Certification™ program, which demonstrates how space technologies improve life on Earth and makes space more interesting and accessible to everyone. Products and services that display the Space Certification seal are guaranteed to have stemmed from, or been dramatically improved by, technologies originally…
The Benefits of Becoming a Teacher Liaison
by Carah Barbarick, Space Foundation Space Education Specialist. Before coming to work for the Space Foundation this year, Carah was one of our Teacher Liaisons. Now she heads the program. Carah is pictured here in 2010, when she was a new Teacher Liaison, meeting NASA astronauts CAPT Michael McCulley, USN (Ret.) and Col. Michael Good,…
Clifford™ Inspires Literacy at the Space Foundation Discovery Center
by Colleen Parith, Space Foundation Marketing & Communications Specialist On Oct. 3, a Big Red Dog named Clifford™ landed at the Space Foundation Discovery Center thanks to a partnership with the Pikes Peak Children’s Museum (PPCM). The beloved childhood literary character is visiting from the Minnesota Children’s Museum as a part of the Adventures with…
Piecing Together the Space Industry Puzzle
by Micah Walter-Range, Space Foundation Director – Research & Analysis Human brains crave stimulation and novel experiences. This is one of the reasons I enjoy studying and writing about the space industry – there is so much variety and the nature of the industry itself is undergoing some major changes. As the space economy grows…
Space Foundation Hosts Space Power Breakfast with Secretary of the Air Force James
On Oct. 8, the Space Foundation’s Washington, D.C., office hosted a Space Power Breakfast, with featured speaker Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James. The breakfast was attended by nearly 80 congressional staff, industry executives, and various officials from U.S. government departments and agencies that are responsible for space, plus the Space Foundation’s CEO…
COO Meetings on The Hill
Shelli Brunswick, Space Foundation Chief Operating Officer, spent a week in Washington, D.C., during October meeting with a number of officials to promote various Space Foundation programs, including its new Faga Forum on Space Intelligence, to be offered for the first time Feb. 10, 2016, and its new Space in the Community program, promoting STEM…
World Space Agency Spotlight: Russian Federal Space Agency (FKA, RKA)
An authorized federal executive agency of Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency or Roscosmos (FKA or RKA) was formed in 1992. Formerly the Soviet Space Program, the Russian nation has a rich history in space firsts. Most well known is the first manned space flight, which occurred on April 12, 1961, with Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.…