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2021 RASC-AL COMPETITION

Open to both undergraduate and graduate students studying fields with applications to human space exploration, NASA’s RASC-AL Competition is an engineering design challenge that allows students to incorporate their coursework into real aerospace design concepts and work together in a team environment. With nearly two decades of history,

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NASA’s 2021 Big Idea Challenge Call for Proposals

NASA is seeking robust proposals from universities affiliated with their state’s Space Grant Consortium (or partnered with an affiliated school) to design, build, and test novel dust mitigation (or dust tolerant) technologies for lunar applications. This is an open innovation challenge with minimal constraints so that proposing teams can genuinely create and develop out-of-the-box solutions. Selected teams will receive awards ranging between $50,000 and $180,000 to bring their ideas to life!
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Former CaSGC Sponsored Student Accepts Position at NASA

Felipe Valdez was a student sponsored by the California Space Grant Consortium while he studied and did research with Prof. Jose Granda of California State University Sacramento. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Department at CSUS and then continued his graduate studies at UC Davis.

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SAVE THE DATES: NASA LEADERSHIP FUTURE OF SPACE

The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory, American Astronautical Society, and NASA invite you to discover the future of the ISS. Join us on August 27, 2020 for day one of the ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) 2020 Online Series.

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NASA Science Town Hall – July 9 at Noon PST

You are cordially invited to a virtual town hall meeting hosted by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate on Thursday, July 9 at 3 p.m. ET. Associate Administrator for Science Thomas Zurbuchen and other members of the Science leadership team will discuss updates on the agency’s science activities and welcome questions from the community. 

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NASA ARTEMIS LUNAR LANDER CHALLENGE: Internships Available!

NASA Office of STEM education was recently awarded a 2-year project to UCSD, USC, and UC-Berkeley to develop an autonomous lunar landing vehicle and to develop a nation-wide Lunar/Martian Lander Skills competition using these landing vehicles.  This is an Artemis-relevant systems engineering and integration skills project that will require the students to develop critical thinking and hands-on skill sets that NASA needs for their upcoming (beginning 2024) Artemis missions to the moon. 

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Be a Part of NASA’s Space X Demo-2 Launch

No matter where you are you can join in the excitement of this historic event. Celebrate the first launch of American Astronauts to the ISS since 2011.

What’s involved: First, play the Rocket Science: Ride to Station App,

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Summer 2020 Internship Opportunities at NASA Goddard

Research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) emphasizes a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man-made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one-time forcings such as volcanic explosions,

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Cubes in Space 2020

A free STEAM project-based learning program for formal and informal educators and their students, 11-18 years of age is being offered this year. Cubes in Space provides students the opportunity to design and compete to launch small experiments into space.

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NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) 2020

The NASA Airborne Science Program invites highly motivated advanced undergraduates who will be rising seniors in summer 2020 to apply for participation in the 12th annual NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP 2020).  Students will work in multi-disciplinary teams to study surface, atmospheric, and oceanographic processes. Participants will 

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