Donate Now for the Future of the Space Frontier Foundation!

by Space Frontier Foundation December 13, 2011 Enablers

If the Foundation is making a difference, it should be measurable and visible for all to see. We have the plan in place to do more, but we need your help to keep moving these projects forward. Please donate today if you want your kid to be taught by an astronaut teacher, to support the creation of new entrepreneurial space businesses, or to see pro-settlement legislation. The SFF can make it happen — so click the “Donate Now” tab above!

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Teachers in Space Expands Management Team

by Space Frontier Press April 13, 2011 News

Teachers in Space has named Rachael Manzer to the new position of Education/Media Liaison. At the same time, the Space Frontier Foundation announced that Colleen Howard, Education Coordinator for Teachers in Space, has been promoted to the position of Director of Operations.

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Make Magazine Helps Develop Space Science Kits for Education

by Space Frontier Foundation February 28, 2011 Enablers

Make Magazine, the leading do-it-yourself publication for technology hobbyists and experimenters, is partnering with Teachers in Space to help develop space science kits that high-school teachers can build and fly on suborbital and orbital flights.

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Teachers in Space Announces Summer Workshops for High-School Teachers

by Space Frontier Foundation February 5, 2011 Cheap Access to Space

In the summer of 2011, Teachers in Space will offer five one-week professional-development workshops for high-school science, technology, engineering, and math teachers. Teachers in Space announced the workshops during the final session of the Space Exploration Educators Conference, which took place here today.

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Teachers in Space Offers Historic Flight Opportunity in 2011

by Space Frontier Foundation February 5, 2011 Education

In the summer of 2011, high-school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers will have the chance to fly experiments on an early unmanned flight of a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV). The Excelsior STEM mission was announced here today by Teachers in Space, a nonprofit project of the Space Frontier Foundation.

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Teachers In Space and NASA to Cooperate on Teacher Development

by Space Frontier Press September 16, 2010 Enablers

The Teachers in Space program (TIS) has been selected by the NASA Education Office to create an innovative professional-development program for high school science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers during the summer of 2011-12. The workshops, conducted under the K-12 Cooperative Agreement Notice, will focus on suborbital science, suborbital flight, space medicine, and human factors. To conduct these workshops, Teachers in Space has assembled a team that includes members from NASA, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Space Education Initiatives.

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Group Seeking More Teachers for Free Space Flights

by Space Frontier Foundation July 9, 2010 News

Last year, Teachers in Space announced its first 7 teacher astronaut trainees. Meet members of the organization, including the first crop of teacher astronaut trainees, known as the Pathfinder 7. You can speak with them about the training they have undergone the past year. Teachers in Space will also announce the process for selecting the second group of teacher astronaut trainees.

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Astronaut Teacher Candidate has the Wright Stuff

by Space Frontier Foundation July 1, 2010 News

As one of seven Pathfinder astronaut teacher candidates selected by the non-profit Teachers in Space program, Steve Heck plans to make history by becoming one of the first teachers to fly into space and return to the classroom. Today, however, he recreated history when he flew a replica of the Model B Wright Flyer.

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A Remarkable Experience in DC

by Bob Werb March 31, 2010 SpaceFront

I had a remarkable experience in DC last week. I went down to join Ed Wright, six of the seven Pathfinder teachers and a couple of other Advocates to brief some key Congressional and Senate offices.  Aside from expressing our enthusiasm for the proposed NASA budget and the need to fix the ITAR mess, our [...]

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Take Back Your Space Program!

by Space Frontier Foundation December 14, 2009 Featured

For decades, the American space program has been held hostage by special interests who have kept us chained to planet Earth. Next year, that will change. In 2010, American citizens will visit Capitol Hill to take back the American space program. First Flight of this year-long effort is scheduled for the week of February 7-12, 2010.

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