Space Foundation News & Media
Space Foundation Rolls Out PreK-2 Program
The Space Foundation is expanding its nationally known Space Across the Curriculum educator professional development courses by adding a week of classes specifically for teachers of PreK-2nd grade students. Beginning in the summer of 2010, the new course will join the Space Foundation’s other six classes for grade PreK-high school teachers. Piloted Dec. 3-4 with Charles County Public Schools in Charles County, Md., the…
Maryland Teachers, Students See S.T.A.R.S.
The Space Foundation conducted a team-teaching in-service rocketry workshop for 10 Charles County (Md.) Public School 5th grade science teachers on Dec. 7 that provided ideas and lessons the teachers could take directly back to their classrooms. Space Foundation Aerospace Education Specialists Bobby Gagnon and Melissa Peterson used standards-based activities to show the teachers how to integrate rocketry into…
Former Astronaut/NASA Administrator to Lecture
In December, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center opened an exhibition of space art: NASA | ART: 50 Years of Exploration. Scheduled to run through March 7, and organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in cooperation with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, the…
Deadline Approaching for Shepard Award Nominations
The deadline is approaching to nominate an educator to receive the 2010 Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award. Given by the Astronauts Memorial Foundation (AMF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Space Foundation, the award will be presented on April 12 during the Opening Ceremony of the 26th National Space Symposium at…
Talent, Inspiration, and Money Drive Space
Last June, Space Foundation partner Toffler Associates held a meeting in conjunction with the Space Foundation’s Space Business Forum: New York where public and private sector leaders discussed the future of the space industry. Toffler Associates combined input from this group with its own observations, research, and experience, plus data from The Space Report: The…
U.S. Space is New Corporate Member
U.S. Space LLC has become the Space Foundation’s newest Corporate Member. An American-owned and -operated company located in Dulles, Va., U.S. Space offers commercial, privately financed military satellite communications to the U.S. government, including the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. The company was established in January 2009 by a small group of former…
Report from Washington
On Dec. 8, the Space Foundation and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) held a Space Power Lecture breakfast (pictured) featuring Norman Augustine, retired Lockheed Martin chairman and chief executive officer and head of the Future of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee. Augustine addressed the challenges that lie ahead for the United States as a space power, including…
New Space Technologies Improve Life on Earth
The following is an edited excerpt from the Space Foundation’s The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity. Often, space-based capabilities are combined to create new capabilities, many of which are changing our lives here on solid ground. For example, “geoinformatics” converges position, navigation, and timing (PNT) systems with remote sensing and position…
Space Power Lecture Features Augustine
The Space Foundation, in partnership with the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), held the last Space Power Lecture Breakfast of 2009 on Dec. 8 in Washington, D.C. Featured speaker Norm Augustine, chairman of the Future of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee and former Lockheed Martin chairman and chief executive officer, talked about the challenges facing…
House Addresses Space Transportation Safety
At a Dec. 2 hearing convened by the Aviation Subcommittee of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the House of Representatives tackled the issue of safety in space transportation. Rep. Jerry Costello (D-IL), chairman of the subcommittee, made it clear in his opening remarks that Congress needed an update on the rapidly growing industry. Members…