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NASA HBCU/MSI Technology Infusion Road Tour
The NASA HBCU/MSI Technology Infusion Road Tour (NASA Road Tour) is a gathering designed to inform presidents/chancellors, administrators, staff and students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) about opportunities that exist within NASA, with NASA partners and other external government agencies. HBCU/MSI representatives also share their research capabilities through presentations to the broad audience of attendees.
Goals and Objectives
The NASA Road Tour has an ultimate mission of building capacity at HBCU/MSI partners by increasing awareness and response to NASA’s funding opportunities as well as advancing relationships that are often an outage for this community. NASA desires to significantly increase HBCU/MSI participation in grants, cooperative agreements, internships, and fellowships. NASA also desires to meet the agency’s mandated one percent (1%) federal contracting goal with HBCU/MSI partners, the only one of its kind within the federal government.
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NASA Road Tour at Texas Southern University
September 13-15, 2022
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NASA STEM
NASA’s journeys have propelled technological breakthroughs, pushed the frontiers of scientific research, and expanded our understanding of the universe. These accomplishments, and those to come, share a common genesis: education in science, technology, engineering, and math.
What Is Artemis?
NASA is committed to landing American astronauts, including the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon under the Artemis program. Through the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration program, we will use innovative new technologies and systems to explore more of the Moon than ever before.
How We Are Going to the Moon
The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are designed to send humans to deep space as the backbone for America’s Moon to Mars exploration approach.
Preparing People to Go
As humans travel farther from Earth, we must learn how to sustain human life in the extreme environment of space at the Moon in preparation for human missions to Mars.
Space Apps Challenge
Since its inception in 2012, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge has become the world’s largest global hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens across the globe to use NASA’s open data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space.
Space Apps inspires local communities to come together, think intensely, and create solutions to important problems. Each year, Space Apps engages thousands of individuals in cities around the world to work with NASA’s open source data in a 48-hour sprint. Teams of technologists, scientists, designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and others collaborate to answer some of the most pressing challenges on Earth and in space.
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