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Many Ways To Participate In Space Enterprise

November 26th, 2008   By Matt   Filed Under Your Work Space  

A new site has launched with the purpose of informing you about opportunities to participate in different aspects of space enterprise. Spacehack uses a well designed blog format to document the many projects at NASA and elsewhere that are designed to benefit from your participation. While the site is still brand new, it already contains a pretty good gathering of participatory space projects.  It will be interesting to see where this leads as a community builds around it and more things are added.  I have to admit, I found myself wondering what the addition of content similar to that found on sites like lifehacker and create digital music would look like with a space focus.

Cal Poly SLO Students Tour Lockheed Martin, Sunnyvale

November 10th, 2008   By Thend   Filed Under Industry Space, Student Space  

The California Space Education & Workforce Institute arranged for 5 students from California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo to visit Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale on Friday October 24, 2008. The students  received a warm welcome, luncheon presentation, and a mock up tour from the young professionals and staff that currently work there.

The students, accompanied by the Director of the Math Engineering Science Achievement Program (MESA) at Cal Poly SLO, were attentive with lots of questions for the Lockheed Martin employees about the aerospace industry. Most of the students in attendance were at the Junior level in college, and the majority had never visited an aerospace company before.  While all of the students were seeking a career in Aerospace prior to the tour, all felt that the tour sparked their interest even more.  When asked what they gained from the tour the following were some of their responses:

“Before this tour I had little to no prior experience with missiles and defense systems”

“Lots of information about jobs & opportunities”

“Talking with people that actually work in the fields I am considering to get an idea of what they do”

NASA wants your input!

November 3rd, 2008   By Matt   Filed Under Industry Space  

Wayne Hale at NASA has created a blog post asking for your input.  I don’t want to paraphrase the whole thing, but the main point is that NASA is preparing to inform the next president of the agency’s current status and issues.  Dr. Haile is asking for your input on what the largest issues facing NASA are.  This is a great opportunity to participate in your space program.