Space Foundation Press Releases
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Dinner Features Best-Selling Author and Political Satirist P.J. O'Rourke
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 11, 2010) — The nation’s premier political satirist will be speaking at the nation’s premier gathering of space professionals when he headlines the annual Space Technology Hall of Fame® dinner on April 14, 2011, at the 27th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. Presented annually by…
ISU Students Track Airplanes from the Stratosphere
KIRUNA, Sweden (Oct. 9, 2010) – An experiment, designed, built and tested by a team of three students at the International Space University (ISU) successfully launched on-board a stratospheric balloon from Esrange Space Center in the Swedish Arctic. The experiment, called I-BATE (ISU-Balloon Air Traffic control Experiment), relayed aircraft transponder signals back to the students monitoring…
NASA Launches OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 8, 2010) — NASA has launched a video contest for students, grades 3-8, that raises awareness of how NASA technologies contribute to our everyday lives. The awards will be presented next April during the Space Foundation’s 27th National Space Symposium at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Colo. The contest has…
27th National Space Symposium to Feature Two Space Shuttle Events
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 7, 2010) — During its 30 years of service, the Space Shuttle changed almost everything we know about human space flight: it spawned countless discoveries that have improved both space travel and everyday life on Earth, it facilitated ground-breaking research, it made “routine space flight” possible and it created thousands of…
Space Technology Hall of Fame® Inductee wins 2010 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 6, 2010) — 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…
Countdown Begins for 27th National Space Symposium
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 5, 2010) — The countdown has begun for the 27th National Space Symposium, which is set for April 11-14 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Space Foundation is offering a Super Early Bird rate with up to $500 in savings for industry attendees who register before Jan. 14,…
Space Foundation White Paper: Space Technology Saves Lives
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Oct. 4, 2010) — Data gathered by remote sensing satellites can save lives when used to develop models that predict areas at risk for disease outbreaks. That’s the message of the latest white paper from the Space Foundation, Solutions from Space: Disease and Pandemic Early Warning, which details how space technology has…
DoD, Air Force Spending Legislation Moves Forward
On Sept. 16, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed its FY 2011 Defense Appropriations bill, S. 3800, which added $44.4 million to the Department of Defense (DoD) ‘s $94 million request for the Operationally Responsive Space Office to fund responsive space launch capabilities. The bill zeroed out the Air Force’s $325.5 million request for National…
House and Senate Pass International Treaties
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that would implement treaties with the United Kingdom (Treaty Doc 110-7) and Australia (Treaty Doc 110-10) that cover international arms sales. S. 3847, which has already passed the Senate, cleared the House on Sept. 28 and will now go to the President’s desk for signature. The treaties,…
Intelligence Authorization Passes
On Sept. 29, the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 2701, the Senate version of the FY 2010 Intelligence Authorization. The legislation authorizes funding for FY 2010 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and other…