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CORPORATE MEMBERS
• PARTNERS •
The Aerospace Corporation
Analytical Graphics,
Inc.
Arianespace,
Inc.
ATK Thiokol
BAE Systems
Ball
Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
The Boeing
Company
Booz Allen Hamilton
Computer
Sciences
Corporation
Eastman
Kodak Company
Florida Space Authority
GE
Johnson Construction
Company
General
Dynamics
Harris
Corporation
Holland
& Hart LLP
Integral
Systems, Inc.
Lockheed
Martin Corporation
Network
Appliance, Inc.
Northrop
Grumman
Orbital Sciences
Corporation
Raytheon
Company
SPACE.com
Space
News
Spectrum
Astro, Inc.
Swales
Aerospace
United
Space Alliance
• PATRONS •
Aerojet
Analex
AT&T
Government Markets
AXA Space
CMC Electronics
Cincinnati
CSP Associates, Inc.
Honeywell
Space Systems
Infinite
Links
Inmarsat
ITT Industries
ManTech
International Corporation
MicroSat
Systems
Pratt
& Whitney Space Propulsion
SpaceVest
Stellar
Solutions
Titan Corporation
Valador,
Inc.
Veridian
SPACE FOUNDATION BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
William B. Tutt,
Tutco LLC,
CHAIRMAN
John Higginbotham, SpaceVest,
VICE CHAIRMAN
Donovan B. Hicks,
Cygnus Enterprise Development, LLC,
SECRETARY
Dr. Jaleh Daie,
Aurora Equity LLC, TREASURER
Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr.,
The Aerospace
Corporation
Dr. Guion S. Bluford, Jr.,
Aerospace Technology Group
Wes Bush, Northrop
Grumman Space Technology
Lou Dobbs,
CNN,
Lou Dobbs Moneyline
Gen. Howell Estes III, USAF (Retired),
Howell Estes & Associates, Inc.
William MacDonald 'Mac' Evans, Former President,
Canadian
Space Agency
Paul Graziani,
Analytical Graphics,
Inc.
Richard P. MacLeod,
President Emeritus,
Space
Foundation
Joanne Maguire, Lockheed
Martin Space & Strategic Missiles
Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., USAF (Retired),
Booz Allen Hamilton
Michael I. Mott,
The Boeing
Company – NASA Systems
Dr. Diana Natalicio, University
of Texas at El Paso
Gen. John 'Pete' L. Piotrowski USAF (Retired),
Science Applications
International Corp.
VADM Richard H. Truly, USN (Retired),
National Renewable
Energy Lab
Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson,
Rose Center for Earth and Science
The Honorable Robert S. Walker,
Wexler
& Walker Public Policy Associates
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Robert Anderson,
Rockwell
The Honorable Kenneth Kramer,
U.S. Court
of Veterans Appeals
The Honorable Jaime Oaxaca, Coronado Communications Group
Dr. Simon Ramo,
Northrop
Grumman
Honorary Board Members
Norman R. Augustine
CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN (Retired)
LIFE DIRECTORS
The Honorable E.C. "Pete" Aldridge
James M. Beggs
CAPT Eugene A. Cernan, USN (Retired)
The Honorable Don Fuqua
The Honorable Jake Garn
James B. Hayes
Bill Hudson
Sam F. Iacobellis
W. Bruce Kopper
The Honorable Bill Nelson
Richard D. O'Connor
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Strategic
Space 2003 A Sellout!
Elizabeth Eisenstat
Vice President, Strategic Partnership Development & Corporate
Sales
We now a have standing-room-only situation at our Strategic
Space 2003 Conference in Omaha. Both luncheon events sold
out early, and we had to cut off registrations last week.
Our headquarters hotel, the Embassy Suites Downtown/Old Market
is sold out, and we are overflowing to the nearby Hilton
Garden Inn. We anticipate a very hospitable welcome by the
Greater
Omaha Chamber of Commerce at the Strategic Air and Space
Museum, followed by a day and a half of high-level keynote
speeches and stimulating panel discussions. The Space Foundation
is pleased by the industry's strong response to Strategic
Space 2003 and is already planning a larger event next year
that will include an exhibit center. We thank our sponsors
Analytical Graphics, Inc., ATK Thiokol, BAE Systems, The
Boeing Company, Booz Allen Hamilton, Computer Sciences Corporation,
General Dynamics, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce,
Harris Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop
Grumman, Pratt & Whitney Space Propulsion, Raytheon Company,
Space News and SPACE.com. Mark your calendar for 5-7 October
2004. Details on sponsorships, exhibits and more will be
available soon.
Upcoming industry events include Space
at the Crossroads, scheduled for February 18, 2004
in Washington, D.C., and the 20th
National Space Symposium, which will be held March
29 through April 1st at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.
Make your plans now to be at the world's premier space
policy event - very few sponsorships and exhibit spaces
are still available. The Space Career Fair for College
Students will be held on Thursday, April 1, from 8:30 a.m.
- 4:30 p.m., so if you already plan on participating at
NSS, consider becoming a Career Fair Sponsor. Companies
and students that participated in 2003 considered it a
great success.
Space Foundation Participates in Legislative
Rountable
Steve Eisenhart
Vice President, Policy and Public Affairs
The Space Foundation once again played an active role at the Annual Legislative
Roundtable held August 10-13 at The Homestead in Virginia. This exclusive retreat
is conducted by the Electronics Industries Alliance and brings together key
House, Senate and Administration Staff and industry government affairs representatives.
Issues panels included space, defense, telecommunications, homeland security,
international trade and Congressional Leadership. Featured dinner speakers
were Eleanor Clift of Newsweek, Morton Kondracke of Roll Call and Claudia Winkler
of The Weekly Standard. The Space Foundation is the only space-based advocacy
organization outside of the EIA invited to participate annually in this event,
and we are pleased to be able to represent the interests of the space industry
and community in this important forum.
Space Foundation Host for
the Colorado Centennial of Flight Celebration
Patricia Arnold, Ph.D.
Vice President, Education and Workforce Development
On November 6th and 7th, 2003, the Space Foundation is offering
an important opportunity for educators and students. "The
Celebration of Flight: Past, Present, and Future" will
be presented in partnership with the United States Air Force
Academy, and will comprise an afternoon and evening of educator
training, followed by a day of K-12 student activities and
tours at the Academy. The educator training will include teacher
seminars on Aviation and Space and will introduce standards-based
curriculum and materials on Physical Science, Mathematics,
Earth Science, and History. Student activities are to include
experimentation with the Wind Wall and Wind Tunnel, the creation
of a Time Capsule and a model aircraft-building project.
The featured invited speaker for this celebration is be Erik Lindberg,
the grandson of Charles Lindberg. Erik Lindbergh will present
the story of his journey on the New Spirit of St. Louis with
fascinating images
and lessons learned during his epic flight including
- Triumph over personal adversity
- Managing Risk
- Project Planning
- The use of training
- Teamwork and resource management
- And How Charles Lindbergh's legacy is connected to
the future of flight
Lindbergh, a commercial pilot and certified flight instructor, is the
grandson of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. To mark the 75th anniversary
of his grandfather's Spirit of St. Louis transatlantic flight, Erik Lindbergh
recreated this 1927 milestone, illustrating the human spirit's ability
to dream, innovate and achieve goals against many odds.
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The Gehman Report:
A Challenge to Dare Greatly
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Humans must, and will, explore space. Not robots. Not
sensors. Not simulations. Us. Flesh and blood. Imperfect
as we may be.
The release of the *Columbia
Accident Investigation Board report will ignite
a cacophony of criticism of NASA. The media will
inundate us with hasty quotes
from dubious sources. Politicians normally unassociated
with space will quickly mount their soapboxes. Chum
on the water, sharks will be sharks. But when the din
has died, how does America move forward in space exploration?
As a timid also-ran watching other countries eclipse
our achievements? Or with the quiet, indefatigable
resolve that defines the American spirit?
Certainly NASA has earned sharp scrutiny. Mistakes
were made. Processes were wrong. Management was insufficient.
Danger was denied. The NASA culture - a mixture of
arrogant explorer's swagger and intractable bureaucratic
inertia - needs an overhaul. The effort was under way
by administrator Sean O'Keefe before the Columbia tragedy.
The Gehman Report will add focus and urgency to this
crucial task. As we pick up the post-Columbia pieces,
we must remember that the mistakes made were human
errors.
People make mistakes. We learn from them. Eviscerating
NASA leadership will not bring the Columbia 7 back.
No one has more reverence for our astronauts than those
who live and work with them daily. Our focus needs
to be on creation, not destruction. We must create
a safer, better, more successful NASA to lead us into
the future. The broad cultural roadmap, and a specific
technical roadmap for returning the space shuttle safely
to flight will be found in the Gehman report.
Let us embrace it. We must not wallow in self-recrimination
and let the tremendous opportunities of space exploration
pass us by. This quest has given us new knowledge and
technologies that have changed the face of life on
earth in positive, beneficial ways.
Other nations know this, and are anxious to seize
leadership. Europe, Japan and India have credible space
exploration programs of their own. China will soon
launch its first human missions into space and has
declared its intent to permanently expand beyond earth
orbit. We must not let our nation, or its dreams, be
grounded.
We must be willing to Dare Greatly again. As Teddy
Roosevelt said, "It is not the critic who counts,
nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled
or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the
arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and
blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short
again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the
great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory or defeat."
Elliot G. Pulham
President &
Chief
Executive Officer
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