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NASA Space Grant News: News from the NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. This includes news from the 52 state based Space Grant programs as well as the national NASA program management office.

Last Updated: 2008-07-23

Aerospace Education Services Program Implementation Mini-Grant Cooperative Agreement Notice
16 Jul 2008 - National Space Grant Foundation
The National Space Grant Foundation is currently soliciting proposals to provide seed funding to new and existing programs that will support the Aerospace Education Services Program by adapting AESP provided curriculum Toolkits to the standards and needs of the recipient’s state and implementing exemplary, sustainable, pre-service or in-service educator, professional development courses based upon this curriculum. Proposals are due October 10, 2008.

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.

NASA Systems Engineering Workshop
22 Apr 2008 - Texas Space Grant
NASA/JSC and the Texas Space Grant are hosting a System Engineering Workshop for University faculty on August 5th and 6th at NASA/JSC. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss NASA's need for highly qualified systems engineers and to disseminate an undergraduate systems engineering curriculum to interested universities operating within NASA’s Space Grant Consortia.

Dr. Andrew Arena Recieves AIAA Faculty Advisor Award
12 Feb 2008 - Oklahoma State University
Dr. Andrew Arena, Deputy Director of the Oklahoma Space Grant, professor and Maciula Chair in Engineering at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University received the Faculty Advisor Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for 'promotion and dedication to aeronautics education in Oklahoma'

Montana Space Grant students build satellite for 50th anniversary of Explorer-1
30 Jan 2008 - Montana State University
Montana State University students who only know about the Cold War from history books plan to launch a satellite later this year to commemorate the country's first successful satellite. Explorer-1 is being built by the Space Science and Engineering Lab and its students for the Montana Space Grant Consortium. The satellite will hold instruments to detect radiation and a power supply to run those instruments. It will also contain one of the original Van Allen Geiger tubes that Van Allen provided MSU a few months before he died.

Washington Space Grant Students Lauch Student Built Rocket to 5000 ft
17 Oct 2007 - Washington Space Grant
Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium launches its first rockets, on Oct 13, 2007. A group of 2 undergraduates, 1 graduate student, and 2 professors from Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington joined the Washington Rocketry Association at Mansfield, WA to launch its first student build rocket payloads to about 5000 ft.

HASP 2008 Call for Payloads Released
18 Sep 2007 - Louisiana Space Consortium
The Louisiana Space Consortium, in coordination with the NASA Balloon Program Office, has released a call for student payloads for the 2008 flight of the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP). HASP carries up to 12 student payloads to the edge of space (~124,000 feet) for durations up to 20 hours using a large helium filled balloon. This call follows the recent successful second HASP flight on September 2, 2007 where 10 student payloads were exposed to the near space environment for about 16 1/2 hours. Details can be found at http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/index.html

Alabama Space Grant Launchs and Recovers Balloon Satellite
18 Apr 2007 - UAH News
Alabama Space Grant engineering students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville launched their 22nd balloon satellite from the campus. The student payload container was a streamlined, 10-sided rombus with experiments to measure the payload dynamics, temperatures, and speed of sound and to photograph the terrain.

Alabama Space Grant Students Go Weightless to Conduct Microgravity Experiment
18 Apr 2007 - UAH News
Alabama Space Grant students performed an experiment in a low-gravity environment recently aboard NASA's 'Weightless Wonder' aircraft. These students participated in the Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program, which provides a unique learning experience for undergraduate students to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and evaluate a reduced gravity experiment. The overall experience includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations and educational/public outreach activities.

Captain John W Young Honored with National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award
18 Mar 2007 - National Space Grant Foundation
On February 28, 2007 Captain John W Young was honored as the recipient of the 2007 National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award for for his inspiring, lifelong commitment to space exploration. The award was established to recognize individuals whose life and career have had a long lasting impact in a science, engineering or education field that is related to aeronautic, aviation, or space endeavors.

Coalition for Space Exploration Partners With Texas Space Grant Consortium
20 Feb 2007 - SpaceRef.com
The Coalition for Space Exploration today announced a partnership with the Texas Space Grant Consortium to sponsor the 2007 NASA Means Business competition. NASA Means Business (NMB) is a program that provides an opportunity for college students in marketing, advertising and media to demonstrate and develop their skills by producing a communications plan that will inform and inspire the public to support America's space program.

MA Space Grant Director to be Inducted into Astronaut Hall of Fame
09 Feb 2007 - Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Massachusetts Space Grant Director Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman was chosen by a committee of past enshrines, former NASA leaders, historians and journalists to be the 2007 class of Hall of Fame inductees. Along with Michael Coats and Steven Hawley, Dr. Hoffman will be honored with an evening gala and public ceremony to be hosted on May 4 and 5 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

MN Space Grant Director Honored by AIAA and ASEE
31 Oct 2006 - MN Space Grant
Dr. Bill Garrard, the director of the Minnesota Space Grant and a professor in the department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, was selected by the AIAA and ASEE to receive the 2006 J. Leland Atwood award. The citation for the award reads 'For advancing the discipline of aerospace engineering through effective and creative research, consulting, and for distinguished leadership in the development of enhanced programs of instruction and research.'

NASA competition winners to take part in spaceflight symposium in Las Cruces
07 Sep 2006 - New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
Key players from SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler – the two companies NASA has selected to demonstrate new commercial space transportation systems – will be among the participants at the 2nd Annual International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight (ISPS) in Las Cruces, NM Oct. 17 and 18, 2006.

International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight
28 Aug 2006 - NM Space Grant
2006 International Symposium for Personal Spaceflight (ISPS-2006). The symposium will be held at the New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum on October 17- 18, 2006. We are pleased to have the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) join with us this year to enhance your understanding of the requirements and progress and of the thrills and opportunities that await you in a place called Space. ISPS-2006 will be held in conjunction with the X PRIZE CUP 2006, Earths great space exposition. www.xprizecup.com/

Montana Space Grant Launches 46th BOREALIS Balloon Flight
27 Jul 2006 - MT Space Grant
Montana Space Grant conducted their 46th BOREALIS balloon flight on July 26, 2006 in conjunction with the MUCERPI (NASA Minority University) program, involving 60 students from the Salish & Kootenai tribes of the Flathead reservation. This was the 46th BOREALIS flight since the program's initiation in 2001, the balloon reached 90,000 feet, and was a complete success. The program has a 100% payload recovery record.

Indiana Space Grant Student a Finalist for International Student Scholarship Competition
26 Jun 2006 - Indiana Space Grant
Indiana Space Grant Student a Finalist for International Student Scholarship Competition. Andrew Strange, who will be a Senior Computer Engineering Major at Taylor University, wrote a paper last semester titled, 'Communications on Board: A Satellite Data Handling and Ground Communication System', to submit to the Frank J. Redd Student Scholarship Competition. This paper is based on his work over the past year developing a computer system for Taylor’s satellite programs. He was just notified that he is a finalist for this prestigious competition.

Near Space 8 Balloon Launch
09 Jun 2006 - Maryland Space Grant
The Maryland Space Grant Consortium's Balloon Payload Project had its 8th launch. NS-8 carried student payloads from the University of Maryland College Park. The payloads were successfully recovered. One payload in particular was a first: two chicken eggs rode the balloon up and parachuted down in their protective capsule without breaking or being frozen.

Texas Space Grant Student Team Selected in National Design Competition
25 May 2006 - Texas Space Grant
Congratulations Rice HPN!! Please join us in congratulating the TSGC Design Challenge team Rice University-High Performance Ninjas for their RASC-AL National Design Competition win. Forum Favorites; First Place Overall and Recipients of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Dr. John L. McLucas Award for Study of Space Safety in recognition of their outstanding work and efforts to provide for future astronaut safety. This annual prize is made through the International Space University of Strasbourg, France and the Universities Space Research Association.

New class to explore origins of life, NASA space projects
21 Jan 2006 - Reno Gazette-Journal
The three-credit introductory class in astrobiology will examine the recent NASA Stardust spacecraft project along with newly discovered information about the solar system, the nature of planetary life and how life exists in the most extreme environments on Earth.