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Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program
Centennial Challenges
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
Space Technology Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded a total of $1.25 million to three U.S. teams in the third and final round of the agency’s Deep Space Food Challenge. The teams delivered novel food production technologies that could provide long-duration human space exploration missions with safe, nutritious, and tasty food.
Posted August 19, 2024
MOSAICS
For Colleges & Universities
Goddard Space Flight Center
Kennedy Space Center
Learning Resources
MUREP
Science Mission Directorate
NASA has awarded $6 million to 20 teams from emerging research institutions across the United States supporting projects that offer career development opportunities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students.
Posted August 14, 2024
Small Satellite Missions
CubeSat Launch Initiative
CubeSats
For Colleges & Universities
Kennedy Space Center
Launch Services Program
Learning Resources
Space Operations Mission Directorate
NASA announced a new round of opportunities for CubeSat, developers to build spacecrafts on that will fly on upcoming launches through the agency’s CSLI (CubeSat Launch Initiative). CubeSats are a class of small spacecraft called nanosatellites. The initiative provides space access to U.S.
Posted August 6, 2024
Human Landing System Program
Artemis
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA’s 2024 Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum brought 12 university teams from across the United States to Huntsville, Alabama, near the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center, to showcase their innovative concepts for addressing the complex issue of managing lunar dust.
Posted June 28, 2024
Marshall Space Flight Center
For Colleges & Universities
Learning Resources
Over 1,000 students from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico launched high-powered, amateur rockets on April 13, just north of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of the agency’s annual Student Launch competition.
Posted June 14, 2024
Wallops Flight Facility
For Colleges & Universities
Goddard Space Flight Center
Heliophysics Division
Sounding Rockets
Sounding Rockets Program
STEM Engagement at NASA
More than 50 student and faculty teams are sending experiments into space as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C student flight programs. The annual student mission, “RockOn,” is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, on a Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket Thursday, June 20, with a launch window that opens at 5:30 a.m. EDT. An […]
Posted June 14, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
EPSCoR
For Colleges & Universities
Get Involved
Grants & Opportunities
ISS Research
Learning Resources
NASA announced the recipients of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) grants, which will support scientific and technical research projects for more than 20 universities and organizations across the United States.
Posted June 4, 2024
STEM Engagement at NASA
Artemis
For Colleges & Universities
Kennedy Space Center
NASA’s 2024 Lunabotics Challenge offers more than 40 college teams from across the country the chance to design, build, and operate their own lunar robots, with the top 10 teams advancing to the final demonstrations phase. Media are invited to attend the finals on May 16-17 hosted at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space […]
Posted May 10, 2024
Learning Resources
For Colleges & Universities
General
STEM Engagement at NASA
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement selected seven student teams to participate in a culminating event for the 2024 App Development Challenge (ADC), one of the agency’s Artemis Student Challenges, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from April 15-18, 2024.
Posted May 7, 2024
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