posted 06-15-2009 01:05 AM               

In past years, astronauts Dick Gordon, Charlie Precourt, Sunita Williams, Brian Duffy, Winston Scott, Gus Loria, Dan Burbank, Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, Al Sacco, Jay Buckey, Steve Bowen, Joe Acaba, Mike Lopez Alegria, Pam Melroy, Janet Kavandi, George Zamka, Stephanie Wilson, Cady Coleman and Story Musgrave have all have visited New England with some help from me. Over 15,000 children and adults have witnessed astronauts give presentations about their life, missions, training and schooling. Hopefully some of the students were inspired by them to "reach for the stars".

posted 08-26-2009 05:00 PM               

We will be having astronaut, astronomy, robotics, rocketry, aviation, and science presentations and lots of other hand on exhibits. It will held outside of Boston in the Fitchburg area.

I am looking for sponsors, donors and help from people all over and in New England especially. If you like to help, let me know. Donations are possibly tax deductible. We are a 501c3.

posted 04-19-2010 07:27 AM               

We are now teaming up with the Boys and Girls Club of North Central, Massachusetts to have a family space and aviation day on April 24, 2010.

posted 12-01-2010 08:36 AM               

If you like to make a donation or sponsor an astronaut, please let me know. We could always use help.

posted 02-17-2012 03:04 PM               

This past year or so, astronauts such as Cady Coleman, Bob Thirsk, Joe Tanner, Sandra Magnus, Rick Mastracchio, Lee Morin and Steve Bowen have all ventured up to Massachusetts to speak to over 10,000 students so far.

We are in the planning stages for other events and schools for 2012. It should be an eventful year. Even without the shuttle flying, interest is still high for learning about space, science and math.

Thank you to all that have helped so far but we could use some more help. We are always looking for donations, sponsorships, items to display such as an ISS model, a replica space helmet and suits (kids love to touch and try on), a cutaway Saturn V and other items that kids like to see and touch.

We are a 501c3 so we can accept donations. So I hope people can help us out so that we can reach more kids.

posted 05-20-2012 07:11 AM               

If you would like to help us out, we are a 501c3 and make your contribution a possible tax deduction. Any amount is greatly appreciated. We also like suggestions or leads for other sponsors if you can help that way as well. If you live overseas, we still could use your help. We would make it worth your while if you do help. Any donation or sponsorship of $50 or more will result in a flown bookmark sent to you or something else.

These will be fun events open to all ( we try to make it free for our visitors)so we could use some help.

posted 01-02-2014 08:29 AM               

In May, astronauts Sunita Williams and Aki Hoshide did some tours of schools plus a few extra speaking events in an around Boston and Cape Cod. It was great to have two thirds of an international crew in one place. Aki spoke at a all Japanese school in Boston while Suni spoke around her hometown and in Falmouth.

In Central Massachusetts during the summer, we did a Space Night event in the summer with astronaut Dan Burbank. We are helping the Aldrich Astronomical Society raise awareness of their goal of building an observatory for everyone to use in Massachusetts. We spoke about human spaceflight and showed space artifacts to the public as well as hearing some great stories from Dan Burbank.

The fall was tough with the government shutdown so we moved some school events into 2014.

We also helped astronauts come home and speak to school all during the year and I think so far over 40,000.00 students and adults have heard and interacted with astronauts since we started in 2008.

We could really use some help for 2014. If you would like o help us, please send any support to:

One Giant Leap Inc.
454 Pepperell Road
Groton, MA 01450

...or PayPal to me and I will turn it over to them and you will get a receipt from us because we are a 501C3 non profit. I also help supporters who help us.

Also if you are ever interested in getting support from us to help bring an astronaut up to your area, I can offer suggestions, contacts and other support if needed. Please email me anytime.

posted 04-22-2014 07:37 AM               

I would like to create an email list so that anyone who is interested in knowing what we are doing, who is coming up to Massachusetts or just want to know stuff, please send me your email. I will never sell that list or send spam.

posted 12-10-2015 09:53 AM               

• Our Space and Hockey exhibit will be starting on Friday the 11th of December with some nice items lent to us.

• NASA Astronaut Steve Bowen will be doing some school visits next week in our area.

• April 2, 2016 we will be co-hosting a former shuttle astronaut at the New England Air Museum Space Day.

• We are still waiting for the Canadian and US mail to mail the Bjarni Tryggvason autographed items. I doubt I will have any new signings in 2016.

posted 01-23-2016 08:57 AM               

We hosted a through the mail autograph session with Billy O and Bjarni Tryggavon (for Story Time From Space), which went well.

In 2016 we already have hosted Michael Foreman and have just booked Story Musgrave for Space Day at the New England Air Museum in April. We hope for host more astronauts this year.

posted 12-11-2016 08:24 PM               

Even though attendance was not what we hoped for, Terry did a great job and really enjoyed many of the pictures people sent in.