Space Foundation News & Media
Space Foundation Seeks Nominations for 2013 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 10, 2012) – The Space Foundation is now accepting nominations for its highest honor, the annual General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. The award recognizes outstanding individuals who have distinguished themselves through lifetime contributions to the welfare or betterment of humankind through exploration, development and use of space, or…
Space Foundation Participates in STEM Events at Adams State University
The Space Foundation is participating in several special events open to the community in Alamosa, Colo., on Sept. 6-7 in conjunction with Adams State University (ASU)’s Zacheis Planetarium Grand Re-Opening Celebration. The activities, supported by a $3.6 million grant to ASU from the U.S. Department of Education’s Hispanic Serving Institutions STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) program,…
Thuraya and Quicklink Set to Showcase Innovative and Cost-Effective Broadcast Solutions at IBC 2012
Amsterdam (Sept. 7, 2012) – Leading global mobile satellite services operator, Thuraya Telecommunications Company and the innovative UK-based solution provider Quicklink, will feature technologically advanced, easy-to-use, cost-effective voice and data solutions for the broadcast and media sectors at the upcoming IBC 2012 conference for the electronic media and entertainment industry. One of several cutting-edge broadcast…
UTEP Launches cSETR
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham will help celebrate the opening of the Center for Space Exploration Technology Research (cSETR) and the NASA Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Education Laboratory at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) on Sept. 6. Also attending the opening will be NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck, along with officials…
MEDB celebrates innovation during its 30th anniversary
KIHEI (Sept. 6, 2012) – Former NASA Astronaut Leroy Chiao will headline a new innovation series sponsored by Maui Economic Development Board. The event is part of MEDB’s yearlong 30th anniversary celebration and an effort by the nonprofit to encourage, empower and engage the island community with building technology and developing a sustainable diversified economy…
Thuraya appoints John Huddle as Head of Media Services
Amsterdam (Sept. 6, 2012) – Leading global mobile satellite services operator, Thuraya Telecommunications Company announces the appointment of John Huddle as its new head of Market Development for Media Services. Mr. Huddle will oversee the development and execution of the company’s global market strategies, pricing and operations of its MediaComms suite. John Huddle said, “I…
Aerojet Initiates Research Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Sept. 5, 2012) — Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, and the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announce the creation of a new fellowship for basic research in the aeronautical and aerospace sciences. The fellowship initial research will focus on the development of autonomous systems, which entails…
Space Watch: September 2012 (Volume: 11, Issue: 9)
The View From Here The View From Here: Life Begins at 30 Second View Inspiring a Generation Space Foundation Mourns Neil Armstrong’s Death Top News World Space Week Features Full Line-Up of Space Foundation Activities Space Foundation Will Hold Multiple Events at AMOS Conference Pulham to be Featured Guest on “Space Talk” Check Space Foundation…
The View From Here: Life Begins at 30
In our youth-obsessed American culture, turning 30 can be a traumatic change-of-life event. I was curiously unaffected by turning 30, although I will admit that I was oddly unsettled by attaining the unremarkable age of 32. Since then, I’ve come to realize that 30 represents a tremendous coming-of-age milestone, when your best years still lie ahead…
Inspiring a Generation
This month’s Second View is by Space Foundation Vice President – Education Iain Probert. Anyone may submit a column for Second View by sending it to [email protected]. Unless you were en route to Mars, you would have been hard-pressed not to realize that “the greatest games on Earth” were taking place this summer in London. The…