The View From Here
Great to Be the New Guy
Throughout my career, I have always loved taking over a new organization. New situations, people and issues to deal with energize and motivate me to inspire an organization to achieve goals and objectives they never dreamed possible. In addition, when change and uncertainty have dominated the landscape of that organization, one has a rare opportunity…
Space Watch: July 2017 (Volume: 16, Issue: 7)
The View From Here Great to Be the New Guy Top News Nomination Period Opens for 2018 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award “Big Data and Space Investment Community” is Featured Panel at Space Technology & Investment Forum Spotlight An Inspiring Gift Celebrate the Great American Eclipse! Education Preparing Children for Careers in…
Space Foundation to Host Colorado New Generation Networking Event – "Martians and Margaritas"
New ideas and fresh perspectives can lead a department, business and even an industry to heights. The innovators credited with these ideas often cannot do it alone, and typically have a strong mentor by their side. Mentorship provides knowledge, insight, perspective and more to the mentee, and often to the mentor, as well. It is…
Preparing Children for Careers in Space
Now in its second season, the Space Foundation’s Explore Space Experience is not so much a summer camp, as it is a program to inspire and engage children ages 9 through 14 in the technology and learning that will lead them to 21st Century careers. Explore Space Experience was created by the Space Foundation education team…
Celebrate the Great American Eclipse!
Why is everyone making such a big deal about the “Great American Eclipse of 2017?” In short, because it is a big deal. While a total solar eclipse occurs roughly every 18 months, the majority of our planet is made up of large bodies of water, and these other eclipses are usually only viewable from…
Space Gardening: Our Future Food Source
by Colleen Parith, Space Foundation – Social Media & Public Relations Coordinator Various space agencies around the world, including NASA, have their sights set on getting humans to Mars within the next 20 to 30 years. Getting mankind to another planet is much more than simply getting us there. At the shortest, the voyage to…
June Space-related Activities in Washington, D.C.
by Charles A. Harris, Space Foundation Manager – Washington Operations The focus on Capitol Hill during June was largely on the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2018, which was released at the end of May. On June 7, the House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held a hearing on the FY18 budget request for missile…
Ways Space Makes the World Better
by Kevin Cook, Space Foundation Vice President – Marketing & Communications Space exploration; two little words that set the imagination spiraling, invite intense debate and encompass a multi-billion-dollar global industry. People often ask, ‘what’s in it for me, and how does space exploration make the world a better place?’ The short answer is a lot…
An Inspiring Gift
You never know who you’ll meet at the Space Foundation’s annual Space Symposium, or where that new contact will lead. For Kelly Shelton, Space Foundation Manger – Philanthropy, a conversation at the 33rd Space Symposium this past April led to the donation of an art collection. At the Symposium, Kelly met engineer Cory Jenkins whose…
Nomination Period Opens for 2018 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 27, 2017) – The Space Foundation is now accepting nominations for its highest award, the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award. Honoring its late, long-time chairman, Gen. James E. Hill, USAF (Ret.), the award recognizes outstanding individuals who have distinguished themselves through lifetime contributions to humankind through exploration, development…