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Did you know?

OVER
6,300
COLLEGE STUDENTS

receive Space Grant funding each year, with over 1,400 community college students

OVER
22,000
EDUCATORS ENGAGED

annually, reaching over 400,000 K-12 students through Space Grant funding

25%
OF PARTICIPANTS WERE FROM
UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS
40%

OF PARTICIPANTS WERE

FEMALE

Recent News & Events

William Matthaeus is the 2024 recipient of the Francis Alison Award, UD's highest faculty honor.

Delaware Space Grant Director Delivers Francis Alison Lecture on Solar Wind

Matthaeus to discuss research on space physics The annual Francis Alison Lecture is scheduled for 3 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 18, […]

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Michelle Yatvitskiy, a recent graduate of the fashion and apparel studies master’s program (center), holds a strip of a new fabric for the outer layer of space suits that was the result of a collaboration between the fashion and chemical engineering departments and a company founded by Blue Hen alumni. Yatvitskiy is accompanied by Huantian Cao, chair of the Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies (left), and chemical engineering professor Norm Wagner (right).

Delaware Space Grant Consortium | Building Better Space Suit

Interdisciplinary collaboration leads to innovative new fabric When future astronauts head to the Moon, they may very well be wearing […]

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Mississippi Space Grant Logo and NASA Partner Logo

Mississippi Space Grant Awards Scholarships to USM

To advance research and opportunities for students, the College of Arts and Sciences at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) awarded 27 […]

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A UNIQUE NATIONAL RESOURCE

The National Space Grant Foundation supports the Space Grant consortia in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each of these state-based consortia conducts an array of strategically designed programs to support and enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education in their state.

Click on a state or territory to learn more about its programming.

Programs run by Space Grant jurisdictions

Across the nation, Space Grant jurisdictions are making an impact. Here’s just a few:

High Altitude Student Platform
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NASA Robotic Mining Competition
STEM Enhancement in Earth Science