Author: Wayne Heilman
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Best and Brightest: Natural leader plans a public health career
William Sellmayer sought help after he couldn’t escape the depression and anxiety he experienced during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, even after he and many other students had returned to in-person schooling. At first, Sellmayer was embarrassed he had to seek therapy and take anti-depressant medications to improve his mental health and return…
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Best and Brightest: Passion for science combines with empathy for others
Shreeya Roy couldn’t stay silent when two classmates in her Delaware elementary school bullied her friend from India about the ethnic foods she ate for lunch – reporting it to her teacher, which resulted in an end to the bullying and an apology to the friend from the classmates. She counts standing up for a…
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Huntsville, in line for Space Command, makes presence known at Space Symposium 2023
Amid the forest of more than 200 exhibitors at the Space Symposium are hundreds of companies hawking products and services, more than a dozen national space agencies, several states and chambers of commerce representing just three cities. The Colorado Springs Chamber & EDC and the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. aren’t big surprises given they…
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Deadline in space faced by U.S., allies | Space Symposium 2023
The U.S. and its allies are facing a deadline in space — the International Space Station will be taken out of orbit in January 2031, so the four companies planning to build commercial replacements must have their stations in operation by then to avoid a gap between them. The stakes are high, said Brent Sherwood,…
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Notebook: Former NASA chief argues for sustainable space exploration funding
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration needs to move beyond a cycle of spending billions of dollars on major space exploration programs only to see them canceled a few years later, a former administrator of the agency said Wednesday. Jim Bridestine, who led NASA for three years of the Trump Administration and now a space,…
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Top aerospace organizations become more diverse, but ‘work to be done’ | Space Symposium 2023
A glimpse at the exhibit hall during the 38th annual Space Symposium, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO from April 17 – 20, 2023. Thirty-one top aerospace organizations made progress in meeting their goal to increase the number of women and minorities working in the industry, according to data released Monday by CEOs who…
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Space leaders tout exploration plans after recent successes | Space Symposium 2023
A glimpse at the exhibit hall during the 38th annual Space Symposium, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO from April 17 – 20, 2023. U.S. and European space leaders Tuesday outlined their space exploration plans in the wake of recent successes — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Artemis 1 launch in November and…
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Lockheed Martin lab in Colorado Springs paying dividends | Space Symposium 2023
A glimpse at the exhibit hall during the 38th annual Space Symposium, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO from April 17 – 20, 2023. A lab Lockheed Martin opened in Colorado two years ago to help it bring new space technology more quickly to the military, civilian and commercial customers is already paying…
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‘Greatest space show on Earth’ returns to Colorado Springs — bigger than ever | Space Symposium 2023
A glimpse at the exhibit hall during the 38th annual Space Symposium, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO from April 17 – 20, 2023. The annual Space Symposium, the largest gathering of commercial, military and governmental figures in space technology in the world, returns to Colorado Springs this week as more and more…
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Retiring Space Foundation CEO: Space a $1 trillion industry by decade’s end
Tom Zelibor will retire as Space Foundation CEO June 30 after more than six years leading the Colorado Springs-based nonprofit best known for its annual Space Symposium. This year, the symposium will attract more than 14,000 attendees, making it the biggest annual convention in Colorado Springs. Zelibor, 69, joined the foundation in 2017 succeeding longtime…