“I hope to continue my work at NASA and contribute to aeronautics-related science and engineering for the betterment of ...

Adam Goldstein was raised in a small town in southwestern Missouri. He completed a B.S. in Physics with Honors at the University of Arkansas in 2007, writing and defending an Honors Thesis on the ...

Dr. Linda Neergaard Parker is the director of the Science and Technology Institute at Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

USRA STEMaction Center is working to strengthen the workforce of the future and ensure young people's talents, especially from low-income, rural, and minority families, are developed. We achieve this ...

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is committed to ensuring that qualified businesses of all types receive meaningful subcontracting and vendor opportunities with us. To begin the process, ...

Hannah grew up in Cocoa Beach, Florida, watching from her driveway as rockets launched from Kennedy Space Center. Despite her proximity to KSC, she never considered pursuing a career in space research ...

As a child, Lindsey wanted to be an inventor so she could create things to help people. But inspired by the Hubble Deep Field image, she also became interested in astronomy. It was a visit to Kennedy ...

Katherine (Katie) Melbourne has had quite a number of adventures along the way in her education in astronomy and launching a career in civil space engineering. Most of which she created for herself.

Growing up in Bangalore in India, seeing the stars wasn’t Aniket’s inspiration (since Bangalore’s skies are heavily light-polluted), but his own curiosity about what lies beyond the confines of planet ...

Reading Scott Parazynski’s The Sky Below inspired Sarah that space could be her next great adventure. Sarah grew up in a town where it’s likely there are more cows than people, and young women were ...

For as long as he can remember, Anthony Hennig has always been excited about space. His high school and college teachers made him curious about where he could fit into the space systems engineering ...