For Colleges & Universities

Robotics

Ames Research Center

Astronauts

For Colleges & Universities

General

International Space Station (ISS)

ISS Research

Learning Resources

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Seeks Input for Astrobee Free-flying Space Robots

NASA is seeking input from American companies for the operation and use of a system of free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station as the agency continues to foster scientific, educational, and technological developments in low Earth orbit for the benefit of all.

Posted August 27, 2024

Armstrong Flight Research Center

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Science in the Air

Science Mission Directorate

Beyond the Textbook: DC-8 Aircraft Inspires Students in Retirement

In May 2024, Idaho State University’s class of 2025 received a new learning tool from NASA.

Posted August 23, 2024

Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program

Centennial Challenges

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Marshall Space Flight Center

Space Technology Mission Directorate

NASA Awards $1.25 Million to Three Teams at Deep Space Food Finale

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 Funds Research Projects Advancing STEM Career Development

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 Seeks Student Missions to Send to Space in 2026, Beyond

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 Announces Winners of Inaugural Human Lander Challenge

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

NASA Announces Winners of 2024 Student Launch Competition

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

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility to Launch Student Experiments

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 Awards University Research Projects to Support Agency Missions

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 Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Competition

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