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» Can STEM Education Incorporate the Arts?
03/19/10 from The Launch Pad
Millions of dollars have been granted to public and private education programs to the teaching of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) in the last couple of years. In fact, just this last January an additional $250 million initi...

» Friday Fun Day #FFD: Best of Spacewalking
03/19/10 from The Launch Pad
This week was the anniversary of the very first human being to step out of a spacecraft and into the cosmos. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 10 minutes outside of his Voskhod 2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965, and this week marked the 45th anniv...

» Fueling Our Future In Philadelphia
03/18/10 from Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
The Progressive Automotive X PRIZE Education team is presenting at the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) conference in Philadelphia this week. Our education program and Fuel Our Future Now (FOFN) website resources are featured in...

» Moon 2.0 at SxSW Interactive
03/18/10 from The Launch Pad
The following is a re-posted blog entry from SmartBlogs.com. It is a nice perspective from one of the audience members about our panel ("Moon 2.0: The Outer Limits of Lunar Exploration") that took place last Saturday at the S...

» Rockets! Rockets! Rockets!
03/18/10 from The Launch Pad
This Saturday, two of the teams that participated in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander X PRIZE Challenge plan to start flying their vehicles higher and faster. Both Masten Space Systems and Unreasonable Rocket are currently planning to fly...

» A Different Kind of X PRIZE Press
03/17/10 from neXt PRIZE
The communications department is one of the most exciting areas here at X PRIZE (ok, call me biased), but it’s true. It’s not just about securing the best media placement (although that is the "bread and butter" of the communications wo...

» Building a More Open Government, One Idea at a Time
03/16/10 from The Launch Pad
(Editor's Note: This article is also running on the Huffington Post. Also, please note that the two specific suggestions I reference below are my own suggestions, not official X PRIZE suggestions.) During the months leading up the 2008 ele...

» Weekend Roundup: Baen/NSS Story Contest, Spirit of Innovation Summit, Lindbergh Prize, Space Access '10 Update, Much More
03/15/10 from The Launch Pad
As in past years, Jim Baen's Universe and the National Space Society are teaming up to offer the Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for science fiction stories about near-future manned spaceflight. The grand prize winner will be published in...

» NASA "Game Changer" Commercial Space Innovation Prize at Rice University Business Plan Competition
03/14/10 from The Launch Pad
The 2010 Rice University Business Plan Competition is just around the corner. It's scheduled for April 15-17. In addition to many big prizes in various business areas (often with some sort of high technology emphasis), as in past years, NAS...

» Future NASA Centennial Challenges Planning
03/14/10 from The Launch Pad
Braun Outlines Technology Plans, Including Reestablishing NIAC - Space Policy Online.comThis article includes a link to a presentation, "NASA Innovationand Technology Preliminary Planning", by NASA Chief Technologist Dr. Robert Braun. The a...