Author: WAYNE HEILMAN Special to The Gazette
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Lockheed Martin lab in Colorado Springs paying dividends | Space Symposium 2023
A lab Lockheed Martin opened in downtown Colorado Springs two years ago to help it bring new space technology more quickly to the military, civilian and commercial customers is already paying dividends for the space and defense giant. The 4,000-square-foot center in the Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation on downtown’s east edge was built…
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Retiring Space Foundation CEO: Space a $1 trillion industry by decade’s end
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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…
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Air Force general to assume command of Space Foundation
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The Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation has hired a soon-to-retire Air Force general to replace CEO Tom Zelibor, a retired Navy rear admiral, when he retires June 30. Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle is commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio and technology executive officer for the Air Force and…
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Airfares at Colorado airport at lowest levels in 25 years
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Local business leaders and city officials call it the Southwest effect — and for good reason. After Southwest Airlines brought service to the Colorado Springs Airport nearly two years ago, local air fares plunged to a 25-year low, according to recent federal transportation data. What’s…