SPACE FOUNDATION
Advocating for Innovation. Bettering Life on Earth.
Space Foundation is a nonprofit advocate organization founded in 1983, offering a gateway to education, information and collaboration for space exploration and space-inspired industries that define the global space ecosystem.
SPACE EDUCATION
Space for you. Space for all.
Space Education, a division of Space Foundation, is a lifelong learning platform for the global space ecosystem that delivers workforce development and economic opportunity for students, teachers, entrepreneurs and professionals via programs offered digitally worldwide or at Discovery Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado...
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Space Foundation supports Pre-K through 20 students with standards-based curriculum that uses space principles to integrate science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in laboratory, classroom and after-school settings.
Space Foundation’s New Generation initiatives target aerospace professionals 35 and younger. The program fosters meaningful, long-term peer relationships by providing access to top space leaders through program opportunities at Space Symposium and throughout the year.
Space Foundation offers space commerce training workshops and a related webinar speaker series. These workshops and webinars provide key insights to address the most common challenges in establishing or expanding space-based technology companies.
Space Foundation provides unique and exclusive membership programs for individuals and corporations to connect and participate with the greater space community.
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Space Foundation Partners with Victory Service Dogs to Honor Veterans This Memorial Day
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — May 19, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space…
Space Foundation and RTX Host Space in the Community Event in Colorado Springs
Free STEM-Focused Family Event at Space Foundation Discovery Center COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — April 24, 2026 — Space Foundation and…
StellarWorld Launches Lunar Cities
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 14, 2026 — StellarWorld today announced the public launch of Lunar Cities, a StellarWorld company established…
Atomic-6 Launches ODC.space, the First Marketplace for Orbital Data Center Capacity
New platform enables streamlined purchasing of orbital data center capacity that delivers in half the time of terrestrial alternatives MARIETTA,…
Space Foundation Announces Recipient of Admiral James O. Ellis Jr. New Generation National Security Scholarship
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — March 25, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global…
Space Foundation and Charles County Public Schools Host Space in the Community event in Waldorf, Maryland
Free STEM-Focused Family Event at James E. Richmond Science Center COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. and WALDORF, Maryland — March 17, 2026…
Over the next decade, dozens of robotic landings and a handful of crewed landings are anticipated to build an enduring presence on the lunar surface. Beyond the race for international prestige upon a successful landing, there are multiple benefits for returning to the Moon: national security, potential resource utilization, a gateway for missions deeper into…
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — May 12, 2026 — Space Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1983 to advance the global space community, announced the winners of the 2026 National Space Sustainability Competition and the recipient of the Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award during the premiere of its National Space Day educational video on Friday,…
Artificial intelligence, rapid prototyping, and lightning-fast test programs in orbit will dominate the landscape as the Space Force looks to boost its research, development and testing budget to an unprecedented $40 billion proposed for 2027, panelists told an audience at the 41st Space Symposium on Thursday.
The surface of the Moon will be far less barren in the coming years. At two featured discussions at the 41st Space Symposium on Thursday, NASA officials, commercial partners and scientists explained the rapidly growing opportunities on the lunar surface. With an ambitious launch schedule described during NASA’s Ignition Day, more commercial partners will be heading to the Moon than ever before.
A tsunami of job opportunities is fast approaching the U.S. space sector but coordinated efforts and new approaches are needed to create and connect skilled workers with employers. In two Thursday sessions at the 41st Space Symposium, educators, company executives and workforce officials detailed the current crisis of finding skilled workers. They also addressed what…
Maintaining access to space in a more crowded and contested environment will require new infrastructure, manufacture of new launch vehicles, and a clear set of “red line” rules to keep rogue actors in line, a panel of experts told a 41st Space Symposium audience Thursday.
