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Message in a Bottle: Send Your Name to Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Send your name to Jupiter’s moon Europa by signing a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that will travel aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Your name will be engraved on the spacecraft before it travels 1.8 billion miles on a mission to see if this ocean world has conditions to support life.
NASA Space Tech Catalyst Prize
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate is seeking to expand the agency’s network of proposers and foster effective approaches and methods to successfully engage underrepresented and diverse space technology innovators, researchers, technologists, and entrepreneurs. Applicants must register no later Feb. 8, 2024, to be eligible to submit proposals.
NASA TechLeap Prize – Universal Payload Interface Challenge
Applicants are invited to propose an optimized “system of systems” to enable easy integration of diverse technology payloads onto various commercial suborbital vehicles, orbital platforms, and planetary landers. Applicants must register no later than 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 1, 2024, to be eligible to submit proposals.
2024 RASC-AL Competition
The 2024 RASC-AL engineering design competition invites teams of university students to develop new concepts that leverage innovation to improve our ability to operate on the moon, Mars, and beyond. Proposals are due March 7, 2024.
NASA MUREP Innovation and Technology Transfer Idea Competition
The NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Innovation and Technology Transfer Idea Competition (MITTIC) is a spinoff challenge to develop new ideas for commercialization. Spring 2024 proposals are due March 13, 2024.
2024 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters
In the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, teams will conceptualize, in terms of feasibility and viability, aviation-related system(s) that can be applied to one phase of management for a chosen type of natural disaster by 2035.
Create and Share Landsat-Inspired Arts and Crafts
For almost 50 years, Landsat satellites have collected images of Earth from space, representing the longest continuous space-based record of our planet’s surface. Create art or make a craft that’s inspired by a favorite Landsat image or the satellite itself, and share it with us on social media.
Inspiring the Next Generation with Student Challenges and Learning Opportunities
Creativity and curiosity are strongly tied to NASA’s missions and vision. Many of the agency’s public opportunities foster these traits…
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Be a NASA Intern
NASA Office of STEM Engagement paid internships allow high school and college-level students to contribute to agency projects under the guidance of a NASA mentor.
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NASA STEM Engagement Funding Opportunities
MSI Exchange
The Minority Serving Institutions Exchange (MSI) is a tool that supports your search for innovative and diverse academic collaborators by curating STEM offerings and capability statements of MSIs nationwide. The MSI Exchange can inform partnerships for teaming opportunities and competitive federal awards such as contracts, cooperative agreements, and grants.
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NASA STEM Opportunities and Activities For Students
Multiple challenges and opportunities reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation.
RMC: Lunabotics Competition
This is a university-level competition for teams to use the NASA Systems Engineering Process to design, build, and operate a Lunar robot.
NASA Student Launch Challenge
Student Launch is a research-based, competitive, experiential exploration activity. This project offers multiple challenges reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation.
NASA's BIG Idea Challenge
Participation is open to teams of undergraduate and graduate students at accredited U.S.-based colleges and universities officially affiliated with their state's Space Grant Consortium
First Nations Launch
This competition is an opportunity for students attending a Tribal College or University, a Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution, or who are members of an active American Indian Science and Engineering Society collegiate chapter to design, build, and fly a high-powered rocket.
Explore Careers at NASA
Interested in working at NASA? Start now to be part of NASA’s future. Visit the Careers page to learn more about exciting opportunities at NASA.
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Get Your Research On The Station
Reference information and resources to provide insight into sending your science experiment or technology demonstration to the space station.
Conducting research on the ISS National Laboratory demonstrates to U.S. citizens and the world that space is accessible, affordable, and capable of supporting the research and development necessary to make the fundamental business case for sustainable industrial demand in low Earth orbit.
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Research Opportunities for Professionals
Find Opportunities for Funding and More
Supporting research in science and technology is an important part of NASA’s overall mission.
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Science Activation
NASA Science Events and Activities
Let NASA’s Science Activation program bring the universe to you! We’re inviting every student, educator, and lifelong learner to share in the excitement of scientific discovery and space exploration through these unique opportunities. Science Activation reaches learners in all 50 states and more than 110 countries around the world.
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Citizen Science
NASA’s citizen science projects are collaborations between scientists and interested members of the public.
Through these collaborations, volunteers (known as citizen scientists) have helped make thousands of important scientific discoveries. More than 410 NASA citizen scientists have been named as co-authors on refereed scientific publications. NASA citizen science projects are open to everyone around the world, not limited to U.S. citizens or residents.
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NASA+
Now Available: NASA+, a new ad-free, no-cost, family-friendly streaming service that embeds you into our missions through new original video series.
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NASA Podcast on Spotify
From interviews with astronauts to narrative shows that take you on a tour of the galaxy, NASA podcast let you experience the thrill of space exploration without leaving Earth.
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