Space Grant Success Stories

The Arizona Space Grant Consortium congratulates PI (and former UArizona Space Grant Intern), Dante Lauretta, and the entire OSIRIS-REx team on this major achievement!

For International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, 9/26 this event will host a special live stream of the historical Moon documentary, Desert Mo on, followed by a live Q& A session with producer and former (2013) UA Space Grant Fellow, Jason Davis broadcast from the Flandrau Science Center & Eos Planetarium.

On August 17, 2020, Nadine Barlow passed away. Nadine was appointed the NAU Space Grant Associate Director in 2008 and was a dedicated mentor to many students. She will be deeply missed by the AZSGC family.

Take a moment of your day to read Theresa's important opinion piece on moving forward with tough conversations on race.

Using UArizona's radio telescope on Kitt Peak, a team of astronomers probed a vast, cosmic cloud of gas and dust for traces of organic molecules that form the building blocks for life. The team found that such molecules appear hundreds of thousands of years before stars even begin to form.

Find out what this AY14-15 ASU intern works on now and who inspired her along the way.

After a year of circling close to near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS REx spacecraft is almost ready to dip down and collect a surface sample.

Moriba Jah, the keynote speaker for this year's AZSGC Symposium, is a leader in the field of space traffic management, coordinating the movement of satellites, spent rocket bodies, debris, and other objects in space.

The University of Arizona College of Engineering wind tunnels are getting $1.7 million in upgrades, which will boost the capabilities of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in high-speed aerodynamics research.