Space Foundation News & Media
Space Foundation Congratulates SpaceX on Historic Docking With International Space Station
Space Foundation Corporate Member SpaceX celebrated two historic successes this week with Tuesday’s launch of its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Friday’s docking of the Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS). The ISS Expedition 31 crew successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon capsule with the station’s robotic arm at…
Free Rocketry Course for Pueblo D60 Teachers
The Space Foundation is offering a week-long graduate level rocketry course at Colorado State University – Pueblo, June 25-29. Rocketry: The Future of Human Space Flight is offered free to Pueblo D60 teachers. The course is also open to all other teachers, but they would pay a $175 materials fee. Participants in this course will…
English Teacher at Punahou Academy is Recipient of Space Foundation Scholarship
An English teacher with an interest in science and science fiction has been named the recipient of the 2012 Space Foundation Lucy Enos Memorial Scholarship. M. Thomas Gammarino, Ph.D., teaches at Punahou Academy in Honolulu, and will use the scholarship to attend one of the Space Foundation’s Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development courses…
Pinellas County Teacher Awarded Space Foundation Scholarship
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 17, 2012) – Donnika Jones, a teacher with Pinellas County Schools, has been awarded the 2012 Space Foundation Dr. Catherine Pedretty Space Scholarship for Teachers. The scholarship will pay expenses for Jones to travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., this summer and participate in one of the Space Foundation’s Space Across the…
Space Across the Curriculum Helps Teachers Improve Students’ STEM Performance
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 16, 2012) — Educators who want to improve their classroom skills, better motivate their students and – potentially – earn a master’s degree may sign up now for Space Foundation Space Across the Curriculum teacher professional development courses. These intensive week-long graduate-level courses for pre-k – 12 educators provide space-related science, technology, engineering…
Aerojet and Teledyne Brown Engineering Host Alabama Governor for Rocket Engine Factory Milestone Event
THOUSAND OAKS and SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 14, 2012) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company and its strategic alliance partner Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY), announced today that the companies hosted Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, along with Congressman Mo Brooks and several other dignitaries at Teledyne Brown’s headquarters in Huntsville,…
Tyson Talks with Rocky Mountain PBS About the Inspiration of Space and Killer Asteroid
During the Space Foundation’s 28th National Space Symposium last month in Colorado Springs, Colo., Symposium Keynote Speaker Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson sat down with Rocky Mountain PBS for two different interviews for the program Colorado State of Mind. In one interview, the well-known astrophysicist, director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium, bestselling author and one of…
Truss Building Products is Newest Space Foundation Space Certification Program Partner
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 14, 2012) — The Space Foundation announces that Truss Building Products is now a Space Certification Program Partner, and its LeafLock™ products, including the LeafLock™ Gutter System, have been authorized to carry the Certified Space Technology™ seal. Karl Gramling, president and CEO of Truss LLC, SnapLock Gutter System® and the LeafLock…
Aerojet Rocket Motors Propel Successful Standard Missile-3 Intercept
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 10, 2012) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, announced that it contributed to last night’s successful flight test of Raytheon’s Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB where the missile intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile target. Aerojet’s MK 72 booster and MK 104 dual-thrust rocket motor provided the first and second stage…
Space Foundation Student Art Contest Winning Artwork Bounces Off the Moon
Colorado Springs, Colo. (May 8, 2012) – The Space Foundation’s annual Student Art Contest winners are developing a reputation for actual space travel. Digital versions of last year’s winners are all permanently in residence on the International Space Station. Two of this year’s winners have traveled an additional 277,000 miles to the Moon and back.…