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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.
Gottfried
International, 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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Space Foundation Plans Centennial of
Flight Activities
Elizabeth Eisenstat
Vice President, Service to Industry
The Space Foundation has been recognized by the United States
Centennial of Flight Commission as the host for the 2003
Centennial of Flight Celebration in Colorado. The result
will be an educational opportunity called “The Celebration
of Flight: Past, Present, and Future.”
In partnership with the United
States Air Force Academy,
the Foundation is planning an afternoon and evening of educator
training, followed by a day of middle school student activities
and tours at the Academy. The dates for this program are
November 6 - 8, 2003. 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. Potential student
activities include experimentation with a Wind Wall and Wind
Tunnel, the creation of a Time Capsule, a model aircraft-building
project or a photo/art contest. An Aviation and Space Art
Show and exhibition is also under consideration, as are various
public activities, subject to security, funding and other
restrictions.
The Space Foundation is seeking contributions and corporate
sponsors to help make this event an overwhelming success.
It only comes around every 100 years! Please contact Elizabeth
Eisenstat at elizabeth@spacefoundation.org for
sponsorship details, or Dr. Patricia Arnold parnold@spacefoundation.org
for program and content ideas or contributions.
In other news of interest to industry . . . Strategic Space
2003, 2-4 September in Omaha, is building great momentum
with a full slate of speakers, networking opportunities and
corporate sponsors. Advanced registration is exceeding expectations,
with July 1 the first cut-off for discounted "early
bird" registration . . . the 2003 International Space
Symposium is on track for October 28-30 in Washington, D.C.
While this is a challenging year in the commercial marketplace,
huge changes are underway in civil and national security
space programs and an intensely interesting program is taking
shape . . . we are pleased to welcome INMARSAT as our newest
corporate member company . . . and industry is already on
pace to shatter last year's record-breaking run-up to the
National Space Symposium, with exhibits, sponsorship and
corporate participation planning for the 20th
Anniversary National Space Symposium (March 29-April 1, 2004) already
well under way.
Pulham highlights space technologies
at UN Meeting
Steve Eisenhart
Vice President, Policy and Public Affairs
Space Foundation President & CEO Elliot G. Pulham recently
urged the member nations of the United
Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) to consider
how space technology can effectively be used to improve life
on Earth. Speaking before the Committee at its annual meeting
in Vienna, Pulham highlighted several space technologies
as examples, including the Humanitarian Demining Device,
Digital Latching Valve, VisiScreen™ Ocular Screening
System, and Cochlear Implant.
“It is clear that space technologies can be a powerful
force for improving human health and safety and for cleaning
and restoring the environment all over the world,” says
Pulham. “If space and society mean anything, it’s
that we are developing through our space endeavors the fundamental
technologies to improve life on Earth for every person.”
Full text of the presentation and descriptions of each technology
are available online at www.spacefoundation.org.
Space Foundation leads NASA’s
Blue Ribbon Panel
Patricia Arnold, Ph.D.
Vice President, Education
The Space Foundation continues to lend support to critical
broad based educational initiatives. The Foundation was recently
selected by NASA to form a “Blue Ribbon Panel“ to
develop new educator astronaut evaluative criteria. The panel,
consisting of teaching experts from all levels within the
K-16 teaching profession, has been meeting at Space Foundation
headquarters in Colorado Springs.
“The Space Foundation is thrilled to have been selected
to lead this Blue Ribbon Panel. Inspiring the next generation
is a crucial challenge for both NASA and the Foundation, " said
Elliot G. Pulham, Space Foundation President & CEO. "The
Educator Astronaut Program is an incredibly powerful tool
for engaging students and teachers,
and we are honored to be supporting NASA in this endeavor," said
Pulham.
The panel’s goal is to establish an efficient and
effective mechanism for selecting applicants, including defining
a “ superior educator,” reviewing existing educator
astronaut evaluative data, researching, and determining the
most effective rating system. For more information about
other NASA education initiatives, please visit: http://education.nasa.gov/
For more information on Space Foundation education programs,
visit www.spacefoundation.org/education/
or call 1.800.691.4000.
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School is In!
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Summer is here at last . . . the time to kick back,
relax, catch your breath – unless you’re
the Space Foundation!
This is the time of year when our Education programs
are in full swing. And there is a delightful energy
in the air around Space Foundation headquarters as
groups of teachers ebb and flow through the facility,
and team members bustle back and forth to off-site
adventures where graduate training programs are in
progress.
Last week, we completed our first-ever graduate
course focusing on space
history and space law, ably assisted by Rachel Yates,
Trip Mackintosh and Charlie Lucy of corporate counsel
(and corporate member company) Holland & Hart.
It was also the first full scale, weeklong graduate
program held on site since we acquired our headquarters
facility a year ago. Having on- site access to our
NASA Educator Resource Center and all our education
department resources made this a fabulous experience
for our team and the teachers, and we’re looking
forward to doing it again.
This week, our team has been nestled amidst the glorious
surroundings of the Garden of the Gods park and Pikes
Peak – using the fabulous geology of these natural
wonders to do comparative studies of geology on other
planets. This Earth Studies course has quickly become
one of our most popular since its introduction a couple
of years ago. In future weeks the team, and teachers
from across the country, will immerse themselves in
places like the U.S. Air Force Academy and Air Force
Space Command – bringing great real-world exposure
to space to teachers who will, in turn, bring this
excitement back to their classrooms.
An exciting overlay to our summer graduate courses
has been the weekly meeting here of a national blue-ribbon
panel of educators. Under the leadership of our Vice
President of Education and Workforce Development, Dr.
Patricia Arnold, this panel has been on a fast track
to develop for NASA the evaluative criteria through
which future Educator Astronauts will be selected.
A diverse group of teachers, trainers and administrators
from across the country, our “Blue Ribbon Panel” fills
the halls of Foundation headquarters with energy and
enthusiasm. (See Dr. Arnold's story).
To be sure, the Space Foundation remains finely focused
on our other mission areas. Planning for both the Strategic
Space 2003 conference and the International
Space Symposium is well on track and these promise to be exciting events
of great service to the industry. Important new initiatives
are moving ahead on Capitol Hill. We participated recently
as industry representative on the U.S. delegation to
the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of
Outer Space, and we were part of a subdued U.S. presence
at the 2003 Paris Air Show. We are gearing up for our
16th year of operating the Space Technology Hall of
Fame and working closely on marketing initiatives with
several of our Certified Space Technology companies.
As a mission-oriented not-for-profit organization,
our work with teachers and students is especially rewarding
and in many respects it is “where the rubber
meets the road” for the Space Foundation. It
enables us to walk our talk. It is how we change the
world, one person at a time.
No question about it: summer is when “School
is IN!” at the Space Foundation. We appreciate
the support of all our member companies and customers
who make this great work possible.
Elliot G. Pulham
President & CEO
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