Report from Headquarters
Popular Mechanics Honors Swigert Award Winner
NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, which was honored earlier this year by the Space Foundation with the John L. “Jack” Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration, has won Popular Mechanics’ 2010 Breakthrough Award for innovation in science and technology. The Swigert Award is given annually to an individual or organization for…
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Inductee Honored
Randy Kimble, Ph.D., who was inducted into the Space Foundation’s Space Technology Hall of Fame® in 1997, is among three employees of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who have been honored with the 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science. About Kimble Kimble, who now works on the James Webb Telescope as Integration and Test…
CEO Pulham Tours Charles County Schools
Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham recently toured Charles County (Md.) Public Schools to see first-hand how the teachers are using the lessons they gained from Space Foundation Discovery Institute classes. The Space Foundation has been providing professional development classes for Charles County teachers for the past four years. Pulham said. “Education is so central to…
Washington Report
President Barack Obama signed the NASA Authorization Act of 2010 into law last month. Now, Congressional appropriators must pass the NASA appropriations bill after they return from the 2010 mid-term elections in November. October Washington activity touched on disaster preparation, international outreach, commercial contracts and a critical confirmation : The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy…
'Play Along' Help During Elections
Tracking how the upcoming elections could affect space policy is a daunting task. To help companies and individuals keep track of potential impact on committees and positions in Congress that oversee space policy, the Space Foundation has prepared a document that lists all the U.S. House and Senate members running for reelection who sit on…
USA Science & Engineering Festival a Success
On a beautiful fall weekend in October nearly 200,000 people crowded The National Mall in Washington, D.C. to learn more about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education. The USA Science & Engineering Festival, hosted by Lockheed Martin, was the country’s first national science festival. It opened Oct. 10 with a concert of science songs…
Space Foundation Represented at ISPCS
Brendan Curry, vice president – Washington Operations, represented the Space Foundation in October at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) in New Mexico. Curry was part of a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of implementing the new U.S. space policy. His comments covered: Areas where there could be new commercial space…
Space Foundation Welcomes New Research Analyst
G. Ryan Faith, who has joined the Space Foundation as a research analyst, wrote extensively about space policy, and human spaceflight in particular, during his years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. As a program manager for space initiatives at CSIS, he worked with the Space Foundation on a…
Space Foundation Names Dr. Charles Elachi Recipient of 2011 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Nov. 2, 2010) — As the Space Foundation’s highest honor, the General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award is presented annually to only the most distinguished life-long achievers and role models in the space community. In 2011 the honor will go to Charles Elachi, Ph.D., director of the Jet Propulsion Lab…
Aerojet Completes Acceptance Testing on Second R-4D Development Engine Supporting NASA’s Orion Service Module
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Nov. 1, 2010) – Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and NASA, successfully completed acceptance testing on the second R-4D development engine. The R-4D is the Aerojet engine that will be used on NASA’s Orion crew exploration vehicle for the service module auxiliary propulsion. Eight R-4D engines, arranged…