“There were plenty of engineering-themed toys on view at this weekend’s Toy and Game Fair in Chicago, but none of them came close to NASA’s contribution in terms of sheer cred. On…
Month: November 2014
1964 NASA Citizen Science: Looking for Moon Rocks in Iowa
“4-H groups were soon cratering their neighborhoods and farmers tilling their fields in search of otherworldly harvest. The project surely marks the only official liaison between NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in…
Challenge: Reducing Galactic Cosmic Rays to Enable Long Duration Deep Space Human Exploration
NASA is looking for ways to reduce astronauts’ exposure to Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) while on long duration deep space missions. Currently, exposure to GCR limits mission duration to approximately 150 days…
Registration for NASA 2015 History of Winter Program Workshop
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Education and Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory invite you to participate in the upcoming 2015 History of Winter professional development “teacher-as-scientist” workshop. This week of training,…
Student's Innovative DIY Microscope
Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a PhD student from Brunel University London who hacked his…
NASA Opens Cube Quest Challenge
Registration now is open for NASA’s Cube Quest Challenge, the agency’s first in-space competition that offers the agency’s largest-ever prize purse. Competitors have a shot at a share of $5 million in…
MilkyWay@home
MilkyWay@home is a volunteer computing project that allows people from every country in the world to volunteer their otherwise idle processors to Milky Way research. Currently, more than 25,000 people (150,000 since…
2015 NASA High-Altitude Student Platform Opportunity
NASA is accepting applications from students at U.S. colleges and universities who want to send experiments to the edge of space on a high-flying scientific balloon. The annual NASA project provides near-space…
SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador Program
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, is a 747SP aircraft carrying a 2.5 meter-diameter telescope. The SOFIA project is now accepting applications for the Cycle 3 — 2015 Airborne Astronomy…
2014-2015 NASA Goddard OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Challenge
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is launching the 2014-2015 TRANSFORMERS OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Challenge, hosted by the Innovative Technology Partnerships Office. The purpose of the challenge is to raise awareness of NASA’s…
NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships Program
The NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship Program, or NESSF, is soliciting applications from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees in earth and space sciences, or…
Education Opportunities in NASA STEM Proposals Sought
NASA’s Office of Education is accepting new proposals under the Education Opportunities in NASA STEM, or EONS, 2014 NASA Research Announcement for the Minority University Research and Education Program, or MUREP, Institutional…