SPACEPORT AMERICA PRESS RELEASE
Today’s successful launch of the UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket for the SL-3 Education launch is another successful step in developing the world’s first commercial spaceport. Spaceport America and the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium created history with this first annual Education Launch that provided New Mexico students the opportunity to design and launch scientific experiments into space.
Elliott Pulham, CEO of the Space Foundation
SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE
Space Foundation Chief Executive Officer Elliot Pulham was awarded the U.S. Air Force Distinguished Public Service Award by Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton A. Schwartz last night at special ceremonies at Bolling Air Force Base, in Washington, D.C. The presentation took place at a dinner capping the first 2009 meeting of the U.S. Air Force Civic Leader Program.
Richard Garriott
SPACE FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASES
Millionaut Richard Garriott and Futron CEO Joe Fuller, Jr. are among speakers who have confirmed for Space Business Forum: New York on June 4 in New York City.
The event, sponsored by the Space Foundation in association with Toffler Associates at the Hilton New York Hotel, will provide financial analysts, investment bankers, institutional advisors, venture capitalists, insurers, and others from the financial community with the opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue with space industry leaders.
A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
Outback rocket launch program set to lift off
AdelaideNow.com.au
Defence scientists are keeping hush over experimental rocket launches to take place in the state’s Outback in the next two weeks.
Intel is offering a Zero G flight for the winner and three friends as part of a promotional campaign for J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film.
An artist's conception of a Virgin Galactic flight above Spaceport America in New Mexico
Saturday launch will help make Spaceport ‘real,’ officials say
New Mexico Independent
More than 350 people have signed up to attend Saturday’s educational launch from Spaceport America. Officials say that’s evidence that, as the project progresses from a proposal to reality, excitement is building.
Space Florida
Space Florida keeps its full $3.8M budget
Orlando Sentinel
Sen. Mike Fasano backed off his threat to strip Space Florida of nearly half its $3.8million state appropriation Thursday, saying he thought the agency understood his opposition to the nearly $300,000 it spent on lobbyists last year.
AIA Press Release
A shrinking aerospace workforce, outdated export control rules and a cumbersome defense acquisition system all threaten the health of the U.S. national security space industrial base, AIA President and CEO Marion Blakey said Thursday.
“The role of space in our security and economy is critical,†Blakey said in testimony to the House Strategic Forces Subcommittee. “Space systems provide everything from high-fidelity intelligence on terrorists in the tribal regions of Pakistan to global positioning system information to millions of Americans.â€
NASA has issued 160 layoff notices, the first of 900 it plans over the next five months as the space agency begins winding down its space shuttle program.
PRESS RELEASE
The New Mexico Spaceport Authority is planning to webcast Saturday’s SL-3 Education launch live on Saturday, May 2. The UP Aerospace SpaceLoft XL rocket is scheduled for launch at 8 a.m. MDT, and can be seen live on the Internet at the Spaceport America website (www.SpaceportAmerica.com).
George “Pinky” Nelson, William Shepherd and Jim Wetherbee will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 2.
