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NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate is accepting scholarship applications from graduate and undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year. The application deadline is January 14, 2013. (more…)

History was made the night of August 5th with perfect execution of an autonomous landing sequence to bring the Mars Science Laboratory safely to the surface of Mars. After leaving Earth November 26, 2011 and traveling 352 million miles, the Mars Science Laboratory will study whether the Gale Crater area of Mars has evidence of past and present habitable environments.

The California Space Grant Consortium is saddened with the passing of Dr. Sally K. Ride July 23, 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Ride was the first American woman in space, with flights as mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983 and 1984.

California Space Grant students have gained valuable experience through hands-on, real-world projects preparing them for excellence in a wide range of Science and Engineering fields. Our students have accepted positions at NASA/JPL as well as the aerospace industry, including SpaceX,

The California Space Grant Consortium provided scholarships to nine students for NASA Academy internships this summer (2012):

• Samira Motiwala (NASA Glenn Research Center)
• Javier Gonzalez-Rocha (NASA Dryden Flight Research Center)
• Steffi Valkov (NASA Dryden Flight Research Center)
• Meagan Sung (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
• Michael McCormack (NASA Langley Research Center)
• Tanya Das (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Guadalupe Banales (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
• Guillermo “Willie”

To increase diversity in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), the California Space Grant Consortium supported this summer’s “My Daughter is an Engineer” program, July 6-8, 2012. This program is designed for high-performing middle school girls to explore the field of engineering.

With funding from the California Space Grant Consortium, Lincoln Middle School students have been given the opportunity to send a mini-laboratory, entitled “Fluids Mixing Enclosure”, to the International Space Station (ISS) as a part of the Student Spaceflight Experiment Program (SSEP).

The California Space Grant Consortium has selected the following students for the 2011-2012 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, which engages the future STEM* Workforce in science and aerospace related research projects. (more…)