SPACE (Student Partnership for the Advancement of Cosmic Exploration)

SPACE (Student Partnership for the Advancement of Cosmic Exploration) "Creating the Launch Pad for the Future Leaders in Space Exploration"Website: www.studentsforspace.org E-mail: [email protected]

Dr. Majid Jaraiedi, Director of the NASA WV Space Grant Consortium, distributed a call to all engineering students to meet to form a focus group to help the NASA WVSGC better connect with the WVU student body. On August 28th, 2008 seven students responded to that call: Mehran Mohebbi, Kerri Phillips, Jason Gross, Jonathan Painter, Emily Calandrelli, Allison Willingham, and Kyle Phillips. After tha

t meeting, the students decided to hold regular weekly meetings, to which Greg Duckett regularly attended and contribute to become the eighth and final SPACE Founder, to continue to work on the problems they saw to provide solutions and improve their educational experience and that of future generations of students. To that end, the eight Founders worked to create a group that provided solutions to the problems they saw with their academic environment. Each individual had struggled to pioneer paths that concentrated on space exploration and the sciences that contributed to it, as each had a passion for that field of study. To that end, they desired to keep those paths clear for other students to follow, if they so wished, and to improve upon those paths, while improving the entirety of the academic environment, specifically to increase the emphasis on those subjects that relate to space exploration, and any support needed to provide the space exploration industry, and the future leaders and contributors, with a solid foundation to further space exploration for the benefit of all humanity.

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09/28/2015

Liquid water flows on present-day Mars! Researchers using our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious dark streaks are seen on the Red Planet. Scientists say it’s likely a shallow subsurface flow, with enough water wicking to the surface to explain the darkening. This is a significant science discovery on our quest to send humans on a . Details: http://go.nasa.gov/1Lh2Ivw

09/11/2015

New Pluto Images from NASA’s New Horizons: It’s Complicated

This synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, shows what you would see if you were approximately 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) above Pluto’s equatorial area, looking northeast over the dark, cratered, informally named Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth, expanse of icy plains informally called Sputnik Planum. The entire expanse of terrain seen in this image is 1,100 miles (1,800 kilometers) across. The images were taken as New Horizons flew past Pluto on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 50,000 miles (80,000 kilometers).

Image Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

More images and info: http://buff.ly/1i1IM29

09/08/2015

Jason Davis isn?t an engineer but that doesn?t stop him from writing about it.

09/03/2015

Join us this Thursday, 9/3, at 6:30PM in the ESB room 801 for our first meeting of the year!

07/02/2015

New color images from our New Horizons spacecraft show two very different faces of Pluto, one with a series of intriguing spots along the equator that are evenly spaced. Scientists have yet to see anything quite like the dark spots, but they hope to learn more as the spacecraft near its July 14 . More: http://go.nasa.gov/1Iu7nHw

It's WVU's turn to present on their mission concept for "An Earth-Independent Lunar Architecture Mission" at the 2015 RA...
06/16/2015

It's WVU's turn to present on their mission concept for "An Earth-Independent Lunar Architecture Mission" at the 2015 RASC-AL forum in Cocoa Beach, Florida!

This year's team will be representing the brilliant minds of West Virginia University before an audience of academic peers and industry leaders from NASA, SpaceX, and the like.

And after lunch, we begin with !

06/15/2015

WVU engineering students take home a $100,000 prize after being the only team to successfully complete the level 2 challenge in the four-year history of the ...

06/03/2015

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