Space Foundation News & Media
Aerojet Rocketdyne Welcomes Mark Tucker As Senior Vice President
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct 7, 2013) – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, today announced that Mark Tucker will join the company as senior vice president of Enterprise Operations and Engineering. In this role, Tucker primarily will be responsible for planning and developing the overall strategies for multiple functions including manufacturing operations, engineering, supply chain…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Inserts NASA’s LADEE in Lunar Orbit
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 7, 2013) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced today that its 100-lbf High Performance Apogee Thruster (HiPAT™) bipropellant engine, integrated into a propulsion system built by Space Systems/Loral (SSL), enabled NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to achieve lunar orbit on Oct. 6. The HiPAT™ performed two phasing…
Space Foundation Presents Audience With an Astronaut for Colorado Springs Science Festival
As part of its World Space Week events, the Space Foundation brought former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, Ph.D., to Colorado Springs, Colo., for a series of Audience With an Astronaut presentations. Based in Houston, Chiao also serves as Space Foundation Special Advisor – Human Spaceflight. The Space Foundation is a proud World Space Week Partner…
World Space Week Begins Today!
The Space Foundation is a proud World Space Week Partner Organization. Here is how the global celebration of World Space Week (WSW) got its start — it was initiated by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999 with the purpose of celebrating every Oct. 4-10 “the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment…
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Critical to Successful SM-3 Block IB Flight Test Standard Missile-22 Intercept Success Supports Production Decision
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (October 4, 2013) – Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its propulsion systems successfully contributed to an intercept of a ballistic missile target with the second generation Aegis BMD Weapon System and SM-3 Block IB guided missile. During Flight Test Standard Missile-22 (FTM-22), the SM-3 guided missile intercepted and destroyed a…
Discovery Center Now Has a Director; Travis Schenck Brings Extensive Museum Experience to the New Position
The Space Foundation’s Discovery Center, the Colorado Springs region’s only space, science and technology attraction, has its first director. Travis Schenck comes to the job from a position as executive director of the Museum of Moab in Moab, Utah. The Discovery Center is located at Space Foundation World Headquarters, 4425 Arrowswest Drive, and is open…
Gina Taranto Joins Space Foundation as Director of Development
The Space Foundation welcomes a new director of development. Gina Taranto, CFRE, has 20 years of experience in development and fundraising, and has significant experience in all types of fundraising strategies, including grants, events, direct mail, major gifts and planned giving. She is based at Space Foundation World Headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo. After earning…
Space Foundation Offers Annual Scholarship for Hawaiian Educators
The Space Foundation is now accepting applications for the annual Lucy Enos Memorial Scholarship, providing professional development for a qualified educator of Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian ancestry, or who work with PreK-12 students of Hawaiian or part-Hawaiian ancestry. The scholarship covers tuition, fees, expenses and lodging for the recipient to travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., during…
House Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittee Update
On Sept. 20, the House Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittee on Space held a hearing on “NASA Infrastructure: Enabling Discovery and Ensuring Capability.” The hearing was called to review the findings of NASA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) February 2013 report on NASA’s aging infrastructure and antiquated facilities. Paul Martin, inspector general for NASA, testified…
Management of Weather and Climate Satellites
The House Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittees on Oversight and on Environment held a joint hearing on Sept. 19, “Dysfunction in Management of Weather and Climate Satellites.” The hearing was called to update Congress on the progress that NOAA and NASA have made on the next generation geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite…