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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: 2010-07-19

International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight
07 Jul 2010 - New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
The New Mexico Space Grant is hosting the 2010 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS-2010) on October 20-22, 2010. The Symposium features superior speakers and high-quality sessions focused on characterizing the personal and commercial space flight industry. Plan to be there for this historic event, when these state-of-the art vehicles pass over their eventual home base and operations center at Spaceport America. Join us. This is not to be missed!

Colorado Space Grant RockOn Time Elapsed Video
03 Jun 2010 - Colorado Space Grant
Courtesy of Colorado Space Grant - here is a Timelapse movie of the RockOn (rocket) workshop at NASA's Wallops flight facility.

Florida Space Grant Students Attend President's Space Conference at KSC
18 May 2010 - Florida Spac Grant
Nine Florida Space Grant students were invited by NASA HQ and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to attend President Obama's Space Conference at the Kennedy Space Center on April 15, 2010

North Carolina Space Grant Stuent and Faculty Grants Announced
11 May 2010 - NC Space Grant
NC Space Grant - This academic year, the NC Space Grant is supporting 42 students with grants totaling $186,000. Over the next year faculty will conduct 25 projects valued at $390,000. Awards were granted to students and faculty at eleven North Carolina Affiliate universities and the NC Community College System. This is the 19th year that the North Carolina Space Grant has partnered with NASA to support aerospace-related research activities in North Carolina.

Alabama Space Grant USLI Rocketry Workshops
11 May 2010 - Alabama Space Grant
Alabama Space Grant will host two Rocketry workshops in support of the NASA Student Launch Initiative. This year, we will be conducting the Advanced Rocketry Workshops in TWO locations: Advanced Rocketry Workshop #1, July 7-10, 2010 in Huntsville, Alabama and Advanced Rocketry Workshop #2, August 4-7, 2010, Logan, Utah.

NASA Space Science Student Ambassador Program
30 Mar 2010 - National Space Grant Foundation
NASA is seeking to engage university students, both undergraduate and graduate students, to conduct activities that are designed to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to participate in NASA's Space Science educational activities and to help generate excitement about NASA scientific discoveries in space science (astrophysics, planetary science and heliophysics).

Florida Space Grant Receives $25,000 from Northrop Grumman for Training Space Workers
23 Sep 2009 - Florida Space Grant
The NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium through the UCF Research Foundation has been awarded $25,000 by Northrop Grumman to administer a program designed to give up to 32 qualified college students real-world experience in the space industry.

International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight
20 Jul 2009 - New Mexico Space Grant
The International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), held October 21-22, 2009 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is the industry’s leading gathering for the visionaries and builders delivering the promise of spaceflight for mankind. ISPCS features information sessions, networking opportunities and provides attendees with the latest news, topics, trends, and best practices that demonstrate personal and commercial spaceflight is a reality. ISPCS offers a broad range of panels and speakers to fully convey the state of the industry. The ISPCS is sponsored in part by the New Mexico Space Grant. Register at http://www.ispcs.com

Geospatial Technician Education Funded by NSF
14 Jul 2009 - Virginia Space Grant
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program for the Geospatial Technician Education through Virginia’s Community Colleges project. The vision of this project is to establish academic pathways in geospatial technology at three community colleges in that will provide employers with a larger pool of skilled geospatial technicians.

Ohio Space Grant Team Wins SEDS Battle of the Rockets Competition
10 Jul 2009 - Ohio Space Grant Consortium
On April 4, 2009, a team of Ohio Space Grant students from the University of Cincinnati won the Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Praxis Battle of the Rockets competition. This precision altitude competition included the construction of a rocket and lander. For more information please contact osgc@oai.org the Ohio Space Grant Program Manager.

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/

William A Hiscock Space Grant Scholarship Fund
24 Apr 2009 - National Space Grant Foundation
In memory of Bill Hiscock, the former director of the Montana Space Grant program, the National Space Grant Foundation has established the William A Hiscock Space Grant Scholarship Fund.

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

NASA International Year of Astronomy Student Ambassadors Program
03 Sep 2008 - National Space Grant Foundation
The NASA International Year of Astronomy Student Ambassadors Program is designed to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to participate in NASA's IYA activities and to help generate excitement about NASA scientific discoveries in astrophysics, planetary science and solar physics within their local communities and beyond. These students will serve as role models to others in the community.

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/