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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

  • Austin Heins

    Austin Heins

    Austin Heins is from Sioux Falls, SD, and is double major in Physics and Math at Concordia College. He was involved in a research project doing magnetic characterization of iron oxides during the summers of 2015 and 2016. Austin was also part of a team working with the quantum optics activity during the summer of […]Read More »

Project Spotlight

  • Bulldog Rocketry Team

    Bulldog Rocketry Team

    The Bulldog Rocketry Team from the University of Minnesota – Duluth is designing and building a rocket, propelled by a student designed hybrid engine, to fly in the 30,000 ft class at the 2018 Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC). When Bulldog Rocketry launches the rocket, it will have a winged drone stored in it that […]Read More »

News/Events Spotlight

  • Former NASA Astronaut Pamela Melroy to visit U of MN on April 30

    Former NASA Astronaut Pamela Melroy to visit U of MN on April 30

    The MnSGC is helping sponsor a visit of Colonel Pamela Melroy, USAF Ret. and former NASA Astronaut, to the U of MN at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 30, 2018. This event is free, but pre-registration is required. For more details and a link to the registration website, go to http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/spotlight/Melroy_Lecture.shtml.Read More »

Upcoming Events by (or of interest to) the MnSGC

  • Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1995) Inspiration Initiative Lecture on “Climate Change, Science and Policy,” Mario Molina, Coffman Memorial Union Theatre, U of MN – Twin Cities, 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, 2018. Free, but pre-registration is required. More details posted at https://events.umn.edu/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=event_b&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=F02D5DD6-BA0B-412B-8201-D3F268E1ED8C
  • Former astronaut Pamela Melroy, 101 Tate Hall, U of MN – Twin Cities, 5:30 p.m. on Friday April 30, 2018. Free, but pre-registration is required. More details posted at http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/spotlight/Melroy_Lecture.shtml
  • Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition, May 19 & 20, 2018. Student team talks Saturday afternoon/evening (May 19). All-day launch on Sunday (May 20). Tripoli MN launch site just NE of North Branch, MN. The weather-delay date for launches is Monday, May 21.

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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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