“Ten teams of high school students are competing to have their dishes selected as food for astronauts aboard the International Space Station. They’ll meet in a nationwide Culinary Challenge at 10 a.m….
Month: April 2016
Student Launch challenge
“One of dozens of high-powered rockets lifts off on April 16, 2016, during NASA’s 16th annual Student Launch challenge, held near Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama from April 13-16. Nearly…
Fly Your Satellite!
“For three student teams, the dream of building and working on a real space mission is coming true. At 01:50 CEST (23:50 GMT) today, a trio of student-built CubeSats were released into…
NASA at the USA Science and Engineering Festival
“Explore outer space and our Earth with NASA at the USA Science and Engineering Festival, April 15-17 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW in…
United Launch Alliance Releases Application for University CubeSat Competition
“Applications are now open for U.S. colleges and universities to compete for free CubeSat rides on United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rockets. ULA, the nation’s most experienced launch company, has successfully…
Mark Watney Is Alive And Well – In Togo
West African Inventor Makes 3D Printer from E-Waste, Inhabitat “Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he…
Society of Satellite Professionals International Scholarships
The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) has opened their annual Scholarship Program to help deserving students to meet the high costs of undergraduate and post-graduate study in satellite-related disciplines. SSPI provides…
2016 Annual Planetary Science Summer School Applications Open
NASA is accepting applications from science and engineering post-docs, recent PhDs, and doctoral students for its 28th Annual Planetary Science Summer School, which will be held July 25-29, 2016 at the Jet…
Genes in Space Student Experiment Headed to International Space Station
“Anna-Sophia Boguraev’s (17) winning Genes in Space student experiment is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 8th from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida aboard NASA’s Cargo…