Singer has worked as a consultant for several government agencies, including the House Select Committee on Space, NASA, the Government Accountability Office, the National Science Foundation, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, National Research Council, the Department of Defense Strategic Defense Initiative, Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel, and the Department of the Treasury.

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine started using Foundation Imaging in conjunction with Digital Muse one year later ( season 6 ).

The game was inspired by such classic science fiction stories as the Dumarest Saga series by E. C. Tubb, the Foundation stories of Isaac Asimov, H. Beam Piper's Space Viking, Larry Niven's Known Space, Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium, Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League and several other works of science fiction literature.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Gagarin was ranked as the # 6 most popular space hero, tied with Star Trek's fictional Capt.

* In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the # 9 ( tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard ) most popular space hero.

In 2006, the Space Foundation awarded Hanks the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award.

In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Kirk was ranked as the # 6 ( tied with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ) most popular space hero.

The three Empire books, first published between 1950 and 1952, are Asimov's three earliest novels published in his own name ( David Starr, Space Ranger was published before The Currents of Space, but had been published under his pen name " Paul French ", and the Foundation books were collections of linked short stories rather than continuous novels ).

Located approximately south of Tucson in Sahuarita, Arizona, it was saved from demolition and turned over to the Arizona Aerospace Foundation, a nonprofit organization which also administers the Pima Air and Space Museum immediately south of Davis-Monthan.

His affiliations include the Royal Military College Club, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, honorary patron of Lambton College, trustee of Lakefield College School, Board member of the International Space School Foundation, executive with the Association of Space Explorers.

Dr. Hassenzahl is a Senior Fellow of the National Council for Science and the Environment, through which his climate change education efforts are supported by the Nation Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Digital image processing technology for medical applications was inducted into the Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1994.

* Lifeboat Foundation Space Habitats, a space habitat advocacy group.

In 2006, Christie's offered a reported $ 21 million guarantee to the Donald Judd Foundation and displayed the artist's works for five weeks in an exhibition that later won an AICA award for " Best Installation in an Alternative Space ".

The Arecibo Observatory, established by Cornell University and the National Science Foundation during Gold's tenure as director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.

Asimov returned to the radioactive-Earth theme in The Stars, Like Dust ; The Currents of Space ; and Foundation and Earth.

In the PlayStation 2 game, the player assumes the role of a new student who has enrolled at the Stellvia Space Station Foundation.

Several awards, concepts, and institutions are named after Fermi, such as the Enrico Fermi Award, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station, a class of particles called fermions, the synthetic element fermium, and many more.

* In 2008, the newly launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was named after him.

In 2006, the distributed operating system, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, had a mascot, Glenda, the Plan 9 Bunny, named after Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space.

The mission was named as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, evoking the name of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

* In Mass Effect ( 2007 ), an expedition launched by the European Space Agency discovers an ancient cache of advanced technology leftover from an alien race known as the Protheans ( The capitol of Mars is called " Lowell city " probably named after Percival Lowell who fueled the believe in possibility of alien structures on Mars ).

The crew of the Jupiter 2 in the 1998 film Lost in Space encounter and board a derelict space station named the Proteus.

" It was for this reason that the creators of Star Trek decided to create a backstory for the Maquis in several episodes of Deep Space Nine and The Next Generation, and they named them after the French guerrilla fighters of the Second World War.

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Once More Unto the Breach ", Kor referred to his ship, the Klothos, which was first named in the TAS episode " The Time Trap ".

Interestingly, even in-game characters are conscious of living in a video game, and refer to eras with sequel numbers, not temporal units ( such as years ), even though specific years are named elsewhere in the Space Quest canon.

The game was planned as a departure from the main Space Quest series, rumors it starred a new character named " Wilger ", although Roger Wilco was playable ( as seen in a production video ).

Vivendi Universal has re-released the Space Quest Collection ( originally named Space Quest Compilation ) that is compatible with Windows XP.

gigs performed at The Casbah gave the Undertones increased confidence in their musical ability, and in June 1977 they performed concerts outside of Derry for the first time, supporting a Dublin punk group named The Radiators from Space.

The heavy space theme coincided with TMBG being named Musical Ambassadors for International Space Year.

* August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft ( SCA ).

* Grissom is named with his fellow Apollo 1 crewmates on the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

The TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine features a shuttlecraft named the Chaffee.

In 1969, Ken Thompson wrote the first UNIX system in assembly language on a PDP-7, then named Unics as a pun on Multics, as the operating system for Space Travel, a game which required graphics to depict the motion of the planets.

The European Space Agency ( ESA ) in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW-Fokker GmbH to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

After a simple demonstration to Ken, he allowed them to start working on the full game, which was named Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter.

On February 20, 2012, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Friendship 7 flight, Glenn was surprised with the opportunity to speak with the orbiting crew of the International Space Station while Glenn was on-stage with NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden at Ohio State, where the public affairs school is named for him.

One of the passages in the letter revolves around a serial necrophiliac and murderer named Raymond Andrew Joubert making his way through Maine ; it turns out he was the Space Cowboy, confirmed when Jessie confronted him in a court hearing and Joubert mimicked Jessie's arm positions while she was in the handcuffs.

It is included on his first 1967 album Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space.

Nimoy appeared in Hearts of Space program number 142 – " Whales alive.

Nimoy is also a frequent and popular reader for " Selected Shorts ", an ongoing series of programs at Symphony Space in New York City ( that also tours around the country ) which features actors, and sometimes authors, reading works of short fiction.

Nimoy was honored by Symphony Space with the renaming of the Thalia Theater as the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater.

Nimoy was invited to be guest of honor at the March 1967 National Space Club dinner, and to take an extensive tour of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

Calling it “ Spock Thoughts ”, Leonard Nimoy recited the poem on his 1967 album, “ Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock ’ s Music from Outer Space ”.

At the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Leonard Nimoy reads a version of the quotation that adds the word " continuing " between " the " and " voyages ", replaces the words " its five-year " with " her on-going ", and adds the word " forms " after " life ": Space ... the Final Frontier.

At the end of the Star Trek motion picture released in 2009, Nimoy reads a revised version of his quotation from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan that segues from the original series ' opening to the phrase " her ongoing mission " in place of " its five-year mission ", and closes with the Next Generations gender-neutral version: Space ... the Final Frontier.

Some Mighty Beanz caricature famous people, such as Elvis Presley (# 1, " Rock N ' Roll Bean "); Hulk Hogan (# 18, " Tuff Bean "); Steve Irwin (# 86, " Bush Ranger Bean "); Leonard Nimoy (# 105, " Space Trek Bean "); Pamela Anderson (# 165, " Life Saver Bean "); and Jimi Hendrix (# 177, " Rock Legend Bean ").