Ten new projects are providing opportunities for the public to participate in NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge, which accelerates the agency’s asteroid initiative work through innovative partnerships and collaborations. Through a Space Act…
Month: November 2014
NASA Selects Student Teams for High-Powered Rocket Challenge
NASA has selected eight teams from middle and high schools across the country to participate in the 2014-2015 NASA Student Launch Challenge, April 7-12, organized by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in…
NASA APPEL Virtual Project Management Challenge
On December 2, 2014, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST, the Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL) will host a Virtual Project Management Challenge entitled APPEL–Technical Workforce Development. We invite…
Astrobiologist Dale Andersen's Field Reports: Lake Untersee, Antarctica
Dale Andersen is helping organize Space College. He is currently in Antarctica at Lake Undersee doing astrobiology research. You can read more about Dale here. You can read his previous status reports…
World's First Satellite-Powered Tablet To Use Newtec Technology For E-Learning
Satellite solution provider Yazmi today announced a new e-learning scheme using the first satellite-enabled tablet, called Odyssey(TM), and Newtec’s multicast technology to deliver content via satellite to rural, remote and low income…
2015 NASA and Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sample Return Robot Challenge
NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, are seeking teams to compete in a robot technology demonstration competition with a potential $1.5 million prize purse. During the Sample Return Robot…
Future Engineers 3-D Printing in Space: Design a Space Tool Challenge
NASA, in conjunction with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation, has issued a series of Future Engineers 3-D Space Challenges for students focused on solving real-world space exploration problems. Students will…
NASA Opens Registration for 2015 Exploration Rover Challenge
NASA has opened team registration for the 2015 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. Organized by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the event will be held April 16-18, 2015, at…
Student Spaceflight Experiments Program: Mission 8 to the International Space Station
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education, in partnership with NanoRacks LLC, announce an authentic science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or…
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…
Teams Announced for NASA 2015 Robotics Operations Competition
Eight universities have advanced to the next round of “RASC-AL Robo-Ops,” a planetary rover robotics engineering competition sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace. The teams selected are…