Space Foundation News & Media
Enos Scholarship Winners Build Awesome Rocket
The two winners of this year’s Lucy Enos Memorial Scholarship completed their rocketry class in Colorado Springs, July 20 – 24. Jessica Kamalu and Rod Floro, along with classmate Bill McMaster, built a water rocket during the class that achieved higher altitude than the other six rockets designed by class members. Their Hawaiian-themed design incorporated…
Be Among Space Industry Giants
Corporate Membership with the Space Foundation places companies in the presence of industry giants and successful, growing companies in the space industry. Space Foundation corporate members benefit from advance notice of Foundation event sponsorship and business opportunities, preferential exhibit hall positioning, reduced exhibit booth rates, complimentary event registrations, and much more. Among annual program benefits,…
Successful Space Discovery Institute Series Wraps Up
This month, the Space Foundation is completing the last of 17 week-long Space Discovery Institute professional development classes for teachers and students it has taught over the summer. Two sessions conducted for teachers in Charles County, Md., were complimented by an educational exchange hosted by the Space Foundation and the Charles County School Board during…
Funding Sought for Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy
As Colorado Springs School District 11 (D-11) prepares for the opening of the new Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy (JSAA) in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation is seeking partners to underwrite the costs of materials, renovations, and space laboratories. D-11 and the Space Foundation are working in partnership to create the aerospace-focused middle school that uses…
PWR's Maser Calls for Space Roadmap
Jim Maser, president of Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR), speaking last month at a Space Foundation Correspondents Group breakfast in Washington, D.C., said that the U.S. needs a long-term vision for space to allow industry to better align human resources and research and development dollars with government plans. He said the unstable and discontinuous nature…
Space: Bedrock of U.S. Economic, Strategic Power
Space “is the bedrock of America’s economic and strategic power,” but the U.S. government needs to improve the acquisition of space systems in order to maximize the benefits of space investment. This was part of the feedback Space Foundation Board member Patti Grace Smith gave to the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on…
Letter Urges Obama to Modernize Export Controls
The Space Foundation is among 14 organizations signing a July 13 letter to President Barack Obama encouraging U.S. export control modernization to improve the United States’ technological competitiveness. The Coalition for Security and Competitiveness, which was formed in 2007 to draw attention to the need for fundamental export control modernization, asked the president to “adopt…
Washington Abuzz with Space Activity
On July 28, the Space Foundation, in partnership with the National Defense Industrial Association, held the second Space Power Lecture Series breakfast of the year, with Dr. Peter Wegner, director of the Operationally Responsive Space Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., as the featured speaker. Dr. Wegner spoke to an audience of Congressional members and…
Space Foundation Applauds NASA Confirmations
On July 15, Major General Charles Bolden, USMC (Ret.) was confirmed as the 12th NASA Administrator and Lori Garver was confirmed as NASA Deputy Administrator. Both began their new positions on July 17. “Charlie Bolden is an American hero who brings deep NASA knowledge and experience, and unsurpassed leadership skills to the key position of…
Dr. Peter Wegner Speaks at Space Power Lecture
Dr. Peter Wegner, director of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., addressed an audience of 62 government and industry leaders and Congressional members and their staffs at a Space Power Lecture Breakfast July 28 in Washington, D.C. The breakfast was jointly sponsored by the Space Foundation and the National Defense…