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Welcome! The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) is part of the NASA Funded National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program established by Congress in 1988. Nationally, Space Grant is a network of 52 university-based statewide consortia (all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico) with nearly 1000 affiliates.

People Spotlight

  • Ben Geadelmann

    Ben Geadelmann

    Ben is a senior in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. He is from Adel, Iowa. Ben has been an active member of the high altitude ballooning team since the fall of 2015. During the summer of 2017, in addition to ballooning, he had an internship at Honeywell Aerospace. […]Read More »

Project Spotlight

  • The Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition

    The Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition

    The MnSGC and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocket club, are running the 2018-2019 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition (where “Midwest” just indicates the location of the competition, which is open to college student teams from all around the nation). In this competition college student teams are challenged to design, build, and fly an […]Read More »

News/Events Spotlight

  • Freshman Seminar on Airships at U of MN – Twin Cities

    Freshman Seminar on Airships at U of MN – Twin Cities

    Students in AEM 1301: R/C Airships built and flew multiple styles of R/C blimps and also two miniature rigid airships during the fall of 2018. The “light rigid” was genuinely lighter than air (without its envelope) whereas the “heavy rigid” used both lifting gas and lifting motors to get off the ground. The class exhibited […]Read More »

Upcoming Events by (or of interest to) the MnSGC

  • Occasional stratospheric weather balloon launches throughout the year.  Write to the “Contact Us” link for more details.

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Affiliates of the MN Space Grant Consortium

  • Bemidji State University
  • Bethel University
  • Carleton College
  • Concordia College
  • Fond Du Lac Tribal Community College
  • Macalester College
  • Southwest Minnesota State University
  • St. Catherine University
  • University of Minnesota - Driven to Discover
  • University of Minnesota, Duluth
  • University of St. Thomas

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107 Akerman Hall, 110 Union St. SE
Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0153
P: 612-626-9295 | F: 612-626-1558

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