Houston \u2014 World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue Origin, will serve as Honorary Chair of World Space Week 2027.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTory Bruno is an outstanding choice to serve as Honorary Chair for World Space Week 2027,\u201d said Association President Dennis Stone. \u201cThe World Space Week 2027 theme, To the Moon, celebrates humanity\u2019s renewed focus on lunar exploration. Tory\u2019s leadership throughout his career has helped advance the launch capabilities that are enabling this new era of exploration, and Blue Origin is a leader in lunar capability development,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is an honor to serve as Honorary Chair of World Space Week 2027,\u201d Bruno said. \u201cEstablishing a lasting presence on the Moon is about taking the next step toward a future in which people can live, work, explore, and innovate beyond Earth. The missions and technologies being developed today will help make that future possible, and, just as importantly, inspire a new generation to believe that they can be part of building it, and the first step in changing our human destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Moon represents both our next destination and a gateway to the future of space exploration,\u201d said Association Executive Director Alma Okpalefe. \u201cWorld Space Week 2027 will highlight the missions, technologies, and international collaborations that are bringing us back to the Moon while inspiring students, educators, and communities around the world to engage with humanity\u2019s next great chapter in space.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
UN-declared World Space Week is celebrated in thousands of classrooms and at public events globally, organized by space agencies, space companies, schools, planetaria, and others.<\/p>\n
World Space Week, October 4-10, 2026, is just around the corner with thousands of space-related events planned in nearly 100 countries, according to the Association. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cThe Rocket Revolution,\u201d and the Honorary Chair is John Elbon, former CEO of United Launch Alliance (ULA).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe invite the global space community to organise events of all sizes from October 4-10, exploring the Rocket Revolution in 2026 and the Moon in 2027. We also encourage every organiser to add their event on the global World Space Week calendar at www.worldspaceweek.org<\/a>, so it can be discovered and celebrated by audiences around the world,\u201d Okpalefe added.<\/p>\n About Blue Origin About World Space Week About World Space Week Association Media Contact:<\/p>\n World Space Week Association \n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston \u2014 World Space Week Association announced today that Tory Bruno, President of National Security at Blue Origin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392,285183,285184],"class_list":["post-578843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-world-space-week-2027","tag-world-space-week-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Blue Origin manufactures and operates rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, lunar landers, and satellite systems. Discover more at\u00a0BlueOrigin.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The largest space event on Earth, UN-declared World Space Week is celebrated annually from October 4\u201310. It is an international celebration of the contribution of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition. World Space Week consists of numerous space-related events held by space agencies, aerospace companies, schools, planetaria, museums, astronomy clubs, and others in a common timeframe to achieve greater student and public impact through synchronization. In 2025, up to 50,000 events took place in 102 countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
World Space Week Association is the global coordinator of World Space Week.\u00a0 As an international non-government, non-profit organization, it serves as a permanent observer on the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and is supported by voluntary contributions from sponsors including Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, Texas Instruments, Firefly Aerospace, L3 Harris, Black Sky, Airbus, Cesium Astro, Space Foundation, Gaia Horizons, Bae Systems and Space News.\u00a0 The Association was founded in 1982 and is one of the world\u2019s oldest space advocacy organizations.<\/p>\n
US: Dennis Stone, dstone@worldspaceweek.org<\/a>, +1\u00a0 832-628-2212
International:\u00a0Alma Okpalefe, aokpalefe@worldspaceweek.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n