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Established by Congress in 1988 and implemented by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program (also known as Space Grant) contributes to the nation's science enterprise by funding research, education, and public service projects through a national network of 52 university-based Space Grant consortia. These consortia administer programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The consortia's 820 affiliates include 531 academic institutions and 80 businesses. Other partners include state and local government agencies, other federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Since its inception, Space Grant has awarded over 12,000 U.S. citizens with tuition assistance in science, engineering, and related fields of study.

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Last Updated: 2009-07-03

Space Systems Engineering Website
02 Jul 2009 - National Space Grant Foundation
The National Space Grant Foundation, under contract with NASA/JSC, has developed a Space Systems Engineering website to disseminate curriculum materials to interested faculty. The materials were developed from NASA processes and piloted at the University of Texas at Austin. They include 27 lecture modules, accompanying assignments and exams, reference handbooks, videos, recommended readings, and other resources. The full systems engineering course was designed as a 3 credit hour prerequisite to the senior-level capstone spacecraft/mission design course. Contribute to the website, join the systems engineering forum discussion, or just access the materials at http://spacese.spacegrant.org/

Student rocket flies with success
13 Jan 2009 - Alaska Space Grant
Alaska Space Grant students watched eagerly as their rocket project launched successfully from Poker Flat Research Range on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009. The Ionospheric Science and Inertial Sensing project, called ISIS for short, launched at 2:17 p.m. Alaska Standard Time and flew as designed to the D-region of the ionosphere. A NASA sounding rocket carried the experiment to an altitude of nearly 61 vertical miles

John Mather Nobel Scholars Named
16 Jul 2008 - The Henry Foundation
On 2008 July 16, five summer interns at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland were awarded John Mather Nobel Scholarships by The Henry Foundation, Inc. The funding for the scholarships originated in a generous contribution from the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts, which in turn was funded from the award of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics to Dr. Mather.

International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight
30 May 2008 - New Mexico Space Grant
Veteran space travelers and leaders of the emerging personal and commercial spaceflight industry will gather in Las Cruces, N.M., Oct. 22-23 for the fourth annual International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight, hosted by the New Mexico Space Grant. The purpose of the symposium is to bring the community involved in personal and commercial spaceflight together for two days to grow the industry.