Education
Explore Space Experience Launches at Discovery Center
A goal of the Space Foundation’s education programs is to help young students develop an interest in STEM subjects, to spark life-long passion for science, technology, engineering and math. It is part of our education mission to partner with communities and with parents on organic workforce development, so that children can put down roots in…
Discovery Center Welcomes Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind
In June, the Space Foundation customized some of its education activities for students from the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind. The students visited the Discovery Center for space-based learning about weather and severe storms. The Space Foundation team used its 3D printers at the Discovery Center to make plastic models with ridges…
Space Foundation Hosts Lockheed Martin Interns
For the third consecutive year, the Space Foundation will host Lockheed Martin interns from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other gulf region countries. The intern program is an annual summer international student training program. The program focuses on bringing international engineering students together from around the world to study the fundamentals of space from…
How the Space Technology Hall of Fame® Supports Space Awareness
As the leading advocate for space awareness, the Space Foundation created the Space Technology Hall of Fame® in 1988 to recognize the life-changing technologies emerging from global space programs; honor the scientists, engineers and innovators responsible; and communicate to the public the importance of these technologies as a return on investment in space exploration. In…
An Apollo 50th Anniversary Moment
Orbiting High and Low: Gemini X by John Holst, Space Foundation Research Analyst Two spacecraft, noses locked together, floated above the Earth. The two spacecraft, Gemini X and Agena 10, docked earlier in the day and in doing so, accomplished one of many Gemini X mission objectives. Things were going well. Fire suddenly spewed out…
Space Foundation in Partnership with Asteroid Day
The Space Foundation proudly joins with Asteroid Day in encouraging all possible steps to protect our home in the cosmos. Asteroid Day is held each year on June 30, the anniversary of the largest impact in recent history, the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. This global awareness campaign brings together people from around the world…
June Space-related Activities in Washington, D.C.
by Brendan Curry, Vice President – Washington Operations The month of June saw activity on a variety of space-related fronts in the nation’s capital, and the addition of a new intern at the Space Foundation’s Washington, D.C., office. Ariel Sheely just completed her sophomore year at George Mason University. She is studying government, and also…
Save the Date for Faga Forum on Space Intelligence
Plan now to attend the Space Foundation’s Faga Forum on Space Intelligence, a one-day classified conference that connects participants with government and industry decision makers versed in national security space and intelligence issues. Following on the success of the first Faga Forum on Space Intelligence, the 2017 conference will also be held in the Washington,…
Space Foundation Supports Korean Leadership Program
With support from the Space Foundation, a Korean delegation enjoyed an eventful and a memorable visit to the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex and our partners at Space Florida. The group was led by Director of American Center Korea Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy Seoul, Kim Su Nam. The June visit was partially the result of…
Report on Space Foundation Participation in Delegation to UN Meetings
The Space Foundation participated June 8-17 in the 59th Session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, at the United Nations Office in Vienna. The Committee meets every year to promote international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. During this year’s session, David Kendall, of Canada, assumed the chair of…