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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
Imaginova
Spectrum
Astro, Inc.
Swales
Aerospace
United
Space Alliance
• PATRONS •
Aerojet
Analex
AT&T
Government Markets
AXA Space
CMC Electronics
Cincinnati
CSP Associates, Inc.
DFI International
Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Honeywell
Space Systems
Infinite
Links
Inmarsat
ITT Industries
ManTech
International Corporation
MicroSat
Systems
Pratt
& Whitney Space Propulsion
SpaceVest
Stellar
Solutions
Titan Corporation
Valador,
Inc.
SPACE FOUNDATION BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
John Higginbotham,
SpaceVest,
CHAIRMAN
The Honorable
Robert S. Walker, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates,
VICE CHAIRMAN
Dr. Jaleh Daie,
Aurora Equity LLC, TREASURER
Gen Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., USAF (Ret),
Booz Allen Hamilton
SECRETARY
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.
Marc L. Holtzman,
University of Denver
Lon C. Levin,
XM Satellite
Radio;
Mobile Satellite Ventures
Richard P. MacLeod,
Space
Foundation
Joanne Maguire, Lockheed
Martin Space Systems Company
Michael I. Mott,
The Boeing
Company – NASA Systems
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, Hayden Planetarium
Rose Center for Earth & Science
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
William B. Tutt,
Tutco, LLC
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Robert Anderson,
Rockwell
The Honorable Kenneth Kramer,
U.S. Court
of Veterans Appeals
The Honorable Jaime Oaxaca, U.S. Mexico Foundation for Science
Dr. Simon Ramo,
Northrop
Grumman
HONORARY BOARD
MEMBERS
Norman R. Augustine
CAPT James A. Lovell, Jr., USN (Retired)
Gen Bernard A. Schriever, USAF (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
Donovan B. Hicks
Bill Hudson
Sam F. Iacobellis
W. Bruce Kopper
The Honorable Bill Nelson
Richard D. O'Connor
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Report from Washington
Brian E. Chase
Vice President, Washington Operations
NASA's FY 2005 budget got a welcome boost during the Sept.
21 markup in the Senate
Appropriations Committee, which approved
a $16.4 billion budget for NASA. While $800 million of that
is earmarked for Space Shuttle return to flight activities
and a robotic servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope,
the funding level is nonetheless a welcome increase after
earlier proposed reductions in the House. The
Coalition for Space Exploration actively contacted key Senators leading
up to the Senate markup, and will continue to do so as the
bill moves through the process. It is possible that NASA's
final budget will not be known for several weeks, since it
is likely that Congress will not finish appropriations work
until after the Nov. 2 election.
In national security space news, NDIA and the Space
Foundation again partnered to host a Space Power Caucus breakfast. U.S.
Senators Wayne Allard (R- CO) and Ben Nelson (D-NE), along
with U.S. Reps. Jane Harman (D-CA) and Dave Weldon (R-FL)
and numerous staff, attended the breakfast on Sept. 15, where
the Department of Defense speakers included USAF Undersecretary
Peter Teets and General Lance Lord of USAF Space Command.
The topic of discussion was developing the professional space
cadre, a project in which the Space Foundation has a major
partnership role.
Additionally, representatives of the Bush and Kerry campaigns
spoke to the Aviation & Space Stakeholders Coalition,
where both expressed strong support for the nation's aerospace
industry. Former Congressman Robert Walker, who chaired the
Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry,
represented the Bush-Cheney campaign, while former NASA official
Lori Garver represented the Kerry-Edwards campaign.
Elizabeth Wagner
Vice President, Strategic Partnership Development
Industry shows support for U.S. Strategic Command
Next week Omaha will be buzzing as aerospace executives meet with members of America’s strategic forces to network and develop a better understanding of each other’s needs and capabilities. Strategic Space 2004 boasts an exciting, action-packed program, a sold-out exhibit center and twice as many registrations as last year .
The Space Foundation credits its exhibitors and sponsors for contributing to the success of the conference. Major event sponsors include:
Northrop Grumman (Opening
Reception), The
Boeing Company and Booz
Allen Hamilton (Networking Luncheon), Arrowhead
Global Solutions, Artel
Inc. and Spacelink (Exhibit
Center Cocktail Hour), Greater
Omaha Chamber of Commerce (Opening Ceremony and Exhibit Center Closing Reception),
and Lockheed
Martin (Closing Dinner).
Additional sponsors include:
Analytical Graphics, Inc., ATK
Thiokol, BAE Systems,
Bellevue Chamber of
Commerce, CSP Associates, Inc., Computer Sciences
Corporation,
Honeywell, Integral
Systems, Raytheon Company,Russell
Reynolds Associates,
Space.com and Space News.
Exhibitor and speaker information is available at the conference Web site: www.stratspace.org. It is not too late to register!
Policy and Public Affairs
Steve Eisenhart
Senior Vice President,
Policy & Public Affairs
Space policy issues confronting the national security space
community will be at the forefront of discussions at the Strategic
Space 2004 conference set to kickoff on 5 October in Omaha.
Among topics are Space Control, Network Centric Warfare and Information
Operations, Missile Defense, Commercial Space Opportunities, The International
Role in Strategic Security, and The Expectations of Combatant Commands.
Special panels will also feature senior executive "Views from the
Top" and senior leader perceptions of "Space at a Strategic
Crossroads."
Featured speakers include Generals James Cartwright, Lance Lord, and
Thomas Moorman, and the Honorable Newt Gingrich.
Continuing an activity started at the 20th National Space Symposium,
held earlier this year, a Congressional Staff Delegation (STAFDEL) will
participate
in the Strategic Space conference. This activity provides
legislative staff a unique opportunity
to meet industry leaders and learn about critical strategic
space issues. The group will attend sessions, networking
events, and also join the National
Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Space Policy Committee board
dinner.
Space in the Classroom:
50 Years of Air Force Space and Missiles is a Huge Success
Patricia Arnold, Ph.D.
Vice
President, Education & Workforce
Development
On Sept. 17th, more than 300 hundred Colorado students and teachers
arrived at Peterson
Air Force Base, Colo., for a once in a lifetime experience.
The partnership between the Space
Foundation and Air
Force Space Command was created to celebrate 50
years of Air Force space and missile heritage.
Elementary, middle school, and high school students were
greeted by Generals Lance W. Lord and Elaine Knight. Space
historian "Skip" Bradley shared the background
and timeline for understanding the history of space and
missiles with students.
One of the student's favorite parts of the day was Colorado
native and NASA astronaut Jeffery Ashby's presentation.
He truly inspired students by telling them about his own
personal
experiences as a child, teenager, what his dreams were,
and how he turned those dreams into reality. The audience
was spellbound with the video he showed from his mission
to the International Space Station and with the photographs
he took from space, particularly of Colorado.
Steve Price from Lockheed
Martin gave a multimedia presentation
about "Mars and Beyond," which was followed by
a tour of Peterson's Air and Space Museum. Retired military
docents showed students historic planes and explained their
functions and purpose in our country's past achievements.
Students told us that hearing from the experts and seeing
things in person made what they were studying in school
much clearer and more exciting!
This kind of experiential learning cannot be attained
within the classroom and is so important for students to
understand concepts and "big picture" thinking.
Wanda Christensen, a local 6th grade teacher, sent the
Space Foundation the following e-mail:
"Thank you so much for the opportunity to attend the space event with my
students. I have only had positive comments from the students, the parents
and the other teacher who accompanied me. It was great!"
The Space Foundation would like to thank Air Force Space
Command and the team led by Major Corwin Connelly for their
fantastic collaboration. We also want to acknowledge and
greatly appreciate the support and sponsorship of ATK
Thiokol,
Analytical Graphics, Inc., Raytheon
Company, Pratt &Whitney,
and SI International.
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"Public opinion in this country is everything. With
public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing
can succeed." — Abraham Lincoln
Great quotes are timeless. Speaking a century before
the space age, Former President Lincoln could easily
have been explaining why Space-Based Radar (SBR) and
Transformational
Communications Satellite (TSAT) were recently bludgeoned
in Congress, while the NASA space exploration budget
was earmarked for funding well in excess of the presidential
request.
No matter how skilled an industry's lobbyists may
be, public opinion is ultimately what frames legislative
action. Strong public support for a program does not
automatically assure favorable Congressional action,
but the absence of public discourse (much less well-formed
public opinion) can consign an important program to
legislative purgatory, ala SBR and TSAT. Going out
on a limb to support a high-risk program is not a politically
attractive course of action — especially when public
opinion is silent or the case for the program has not
been publicly made.
This is not to say that behind-the-scenes legislative
work is unimportant. Quite the contrary, it is crucial,
and our industry is blessed with some of the best legislative
experts in the nation. But the best among them would
be the first to opine that public opinion shapes the
environment in which they must work. If we give them
favorable public opinion, then, as Abe said, they cannot
fail.
Thus the contrast between the decisions to add funding
to the NASA budget in one case, while at the same time
gutting funds for SBR and TSAT, is highly illuminating.
As regards the NASA budget, industry has collaboratively
mounted a concerted, enduring, broad-based effort to
inform public opinion via the activities of the Coalition
for Space Exploration. The coalition's government affairs
team and public affairs team have worked hand-in-hand
to get a consistent message out — both to Main Street
and to The Hill. Public opinion has moved from less
than 50 percent in support of the Vision for Space Exploration
at the time of its announcement to better than 68 percent
today. NASA still faces many challenges and will for
years to come. But positive public opinion gives the
agency a fighting chance to overcome them.
Not so for SBR or TSAT. Our friends at Space News were absolutely correct in taking Congress to task
last week for failing to support these vitally important
programs. Our national security space programs are
at the heart of the asymmetric technology advantage
that our armed forces count on to defend the republic
in this uncertain world. SBR and TSAT are critical
enabling technologies and systems that are vital to
the national defense.
Unfortunately, public opinion is either ignorant or
mute on these points. We cannot fault the Air Force,
which is statutorily restricted from program advocacy.
Rather, we as an industry need to consider how we might
collaboratively work to inform public opinion on these
issues so that SBR, TSAT and other crucial national
defense space programs are understood and supported
going forward.
Undoubtedly these issues will be discussed in great
detail during Strategic Space 2004 in Omaha next week.
This discussion will be crucial to building consensus
industry support. Then, we must argue our case in the
court of public opinion. Confining our efforts to smoke-filled
rooms is a gambit we know can fail miserably — as it
has thus far failed our hard-hit commercial satellite-manufacturing
sector, which never marshaled public support to combat
the debilitating unintended consequences of export
control legislation.
We cannot take that chance with our nation's defense.
Risky or not, expensive or not, programs like SBR and
TSAT deserve every American's support.
Elliot
G. Pulham
President &
Chief Executive Officer
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Space Awareness Success
Kevin C. Cook
Director, Space Awareness Programs
The Space Foundation, in cooperation with NASA, established
the Space Certification Program and the Space Technology
Hall of Fame to recognize innovators who transform technology
originally developed for space use into commercial products,
to increase public awareness of the benefits of space transfer
technology, and to encourage further innovation.
Space Certification Program
The Space Foundation is proud to recognize Silhouette
Optical's Titan Minimal Art (TMA) line of products as Certified
Space Technology. After an exhaustive selection process,
NASA chose Silhouette's Titan Minimal Art (TMA) eyewear
for use by Shuttle crews beginning in 2000. The same outstanding
features that make TMA the eyewear of choice at NASA are
very popular here on Earth as well.
Co-hosting the highly regarded Olympus Spring Fashionweek, held 8-15 September,
Silhouette debuted a range of new functional and fashionable vision products.
Activities
included a press event highlighting TMA's new status as a Certified
Space Technology. In attendance was former NASA Astronaut Marsha Ivins. With
a total of five Space Shuttle missions to her credit, Ms. Ivins wore TMA eyewear
during her mission aboard STS-98 Atlantis logging 5.3 million miles in 203 orbits.
It is a strong testimony to the quality and integrity of Silhouette design and
production that TMA eyewear continues to meet NASA's mission critical requirements
without any alterations or modifications to the original design.
Headquartered in Linz, Austria, and with offices in Green Island, N.Y., Silhouette
is celebrating 40 years of designing and producing eyewear that combines top
quality with excellent wearing comfort and fashionable design.
Recently certified EcoQuest International has selected to upgrade to Lifetime
Partner status. In addition, EcoQuest's line of FreshAir products is now recognized
as the exclusive Certified Space Technology in the Home Air Purification category.
Learn more about the Space Certification Program and our growing list of partners
including industry leaders Tempur-Pedic, X-1R Performance Lubricants, Outlast
Phase Change Materials, and Challenger Learning Centers at www.spaceconnection.org.
Space Technology Hall of Fame -- Est. 1988
The Space Foundation has received a number of excellent
nominations to be considered for induction into the 2005
Space Technology Hall of Fame. While the official due date
for nominations has passed, we will continue to consider
additional nominations of "down to Earth" technology
through the end of
this month.
Learn who's who in the Space Technology Hall of Fame and
submit your nominations at www.spacetechhalloffame.
Report from the Cape
Jim Banke
Vice
President, Florida Operations
Director, Coalition for
Space Exploration
Hurricane season thanks to our weather
eyes in the sky
Hurricane Jeanne brushed the Kennedy
Space Center and Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station on Sept. 26, adding to the
property damage already inflicted by Hurricanes Frances
and Charley. Yet thanks to outstanding storm preparations
by the workforce here, none of our nation's important
space flight assets were damaged.
Shuttle's
Discovery, Atlantis, Endeavour at KSC are fine,
as are the
International
Space Station components awaiting their turn
for a ride into
Earth orbit. Across the Banana River at the Cape, three
rockets awaiting
liftoff from their seaside launch pads were not damaged.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Ivan made life miserable for folks
at Lockheed Martin's Michoud facility and NASA's Stennis
Space Center on the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Mississippi
just a week before Jeanne struck the Florida peninsula.
All said, and, hopefully done, our nation's major space
centers in the Southeast took the hit and remain operational
— again, a testament to the advance planning and preparation
that was done before the storms reached land. So let's
take a moment to give thanks, for it could have been worse.
And for one moment, let's not take for granted those miraculous
weather observation satellites that allow us to see a hurricane
born in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean and be tracked for
days — some even weeks — to give us the time we need
to get ready. For all of you involved with the NOAA, GOES
and DMSP satellite programs, thanks and well done!
For more information, visit http://www.spacefoundation.org/
or email custserv@spacefoundation.org
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