NASA EPSCoR Selects Universities for Space Station Research Opportunities

Five universities were chosen by NASA for grants to provide students with opportunities to design research experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station. The selections are part of the agency’s EPSCoR.

Each of the selected universities will receive approximately $100,000 through NASA EPSCoR. They are:

• University of Delaware, Newark
• University of Idaho, Moscow
• Montana State University, Bozeman
• University of Nebraska, Omaha
• New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

“Each of these projects has the potential to contribute to critical innovations in human spaceflight on the International Space Station and beyond,” said NASA EPSCoR Project Manager Jeppie Compton. “We’re very impressed with the ideas put forward in these investigation concepts and look forward to seeing how these technologies perform.”

The new awards will allow students to get hands-on experience preparing payloads bound for space and send their experiments or technology demonstrations to a microgravity environment.

Investigations funded by NASA EPSCoR support the agency’s deep space exploration efforts and, ultimately, may assist with developing a long-term presence at the Moon in preparation for missions to Mars.