March 17, 2009GE Foundation Awards FSGC With Grant Funding
CAPE CANAVERAL 3/17/09 The Florida Space Grant Consortium is pleased to announce that on December 5th, 2008 the GE Foundation officially established its support for our Train the Trainer and Engineer-Teacher connection with NASA program. This commitment by the GE Foundation once again highlights the generosity they have shown in their pledge to support scientific..
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February 23, 2009
FSGC sponsored educator goes to Washington
The Florida Space Grant Consortium is proud to announce the selection of Kevin Simmons, a former FSGC sponsored educator currently teaching at Eagle’s View Academy in Jacksonville, to the prestigious Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship. Chosen as one of 24 fellows, Kevin will reside in Washington D.C. starting this fall for the 11 month fellowship...
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January 16, 2009
Altruist Gary Hlivko Lives On Through Donations
Gary Allen Hlivko, 62, died Wednesday, January 7, 2009. Originally from New York, Gary spent time in both Michigan and Texas before settling in the sunshine state. A former member of the US Air Force, Gary, also a car enthusiast, worked for various car manufacturers including Mazda and General Motors. Though it was perhaps the..
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January 12, 2009
NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative: FSGC supports ERAU rocket team
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Twenty student teams, selected by NASA from colleges and universities around the country, are spending the winter building sophisticated rockets they will launch high over Alabama during NASA’s 2008-2009 University Student Launch Initiative in April. The annual rocketry challenge will be held April 18 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,..
December 22, 2008West Coast Students Conduct Research
Osprey Biotechnics, PGT Industries and Teleflex Electrical System hosted summer interns as part of the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium’s Space and Aeronautics Internship Program (SAIP). Sarasota native Frances Brlit, a pre-med student at St. Thomas University near Miami, worked in the quality-control laboratory at Sarasota-based Osprey Biotechnics. The company develops biological products for environmental, industrial and agricultural uses. Scot..
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November 22, 2008
Miami students get excited about aviation
Aviation Experience was hosted by Barrington Irvine, the first African American to have flown solo around the world. On the day, Barrington flew a small two-seater plane, which he had constructed in conglomeration with local high school students in just 10 weeks, over the skies of South Florida. The event was also a career fair..
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October 28, 2008
NASA Extends International Space Station Contract
Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715 michael.curie@nasa.gov Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov CONTRACT RELEASE: C08-059 NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT HOUSTON — NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010. The action extends the..
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October 21, 2008
NASA’S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury
Oct. 01, 2008 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Paulette Campbell Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-6792 paulette.campbell@jhuapl.edu RELEASE: 08-251 NASA’S MESSENGER SPACECRAFT RETURNS TO MERCURY WASHINGTON — A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6 to photograph most of its remaining unseen surface and..
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July 24, 2008
NASA FSGC and Space Florida Award $375,000 to 17 R&D Programs
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (July 24, 2008) — Seventeen proposals for conducting scientific research and development will receive funding in 2008 from the Florida Joint Matching Grant Program, a collaboration of the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium and Space Florida. A total of $375,000 will be distributed to: 4Frontiers Corporation, New Port Richey, Fla. The Astronauts..
