News & Events – NASA's Minnesota Space Grant Consortium

Minnesota West College wins “Plant The Moon Challenge” award

James Webb Space Telescope

Artemis Orion Returns From Moon Mission

Solar Eclipse Ballooning Intercollegiate Challenge 2022-2023

Competition Announcement: Unique NASA Opportunity to Design, Build, and Launch High-Power Rockets

Space Grant Midwest Rocketry Competition Winners Announced

The Space Grant Midwest Rocketry “Return to Flight: Fleet Challenge” concludes on May 21 and 22

Winners announced for GLEAM Lunar Robotics Intercollegiate Challenge

“Physics Lessons From Biology” – Lecture at Augsburg University

In-person exhibits included at the 2022 MnSGC Student Symposium

NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Student Symposium on March 26, 2022

High-Power Rockets are Flying!

Macalaster College Rocket Launch

Macalaster College First Year Rocketry Class Blasts Off!

The 2021-2022 Space Grant (in-the-) Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition – the “Return to Flight: Fleet Challenge” – has now begun

Minnesota Space Grant Exhibit at STEM Day at the State Fair Featured on Channel 45 TV News

Minnesota Space Grant offers stratospheric ballooning workshop for GO4ST8 high school physics teachers

Minnesota Space Grant announces “GLEAM Lunar Robotics” Intercollegiate Challenge for 2021-2022. (Sign-ups are now closed.) Kick-off at U of MN – Twin Cities on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.

Free Robotics Workshop for Teachers Offered

Quadcopter Challenge Winners Announced

MN Space Grant Student Symposium on March 27, 2021

MnSGC Student Symposium – redirect to 2022

Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition Cancelled for 2020-2021 Academic Year

NASA’s Artemis Team Returning to the Moon

Collecting a Sample from the Bennu Asteroid with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx

NASA Launched Perseverance Rover to Mars on July 30, 2020 – will land on Feb. 18, 2021

Minnesota Space Grant Involved in Mars-Themed Pre-College Robotics Competition

MN Space Grant Is Holding a Quadcopter Competition – Sign up this September

Comet NEOWISE makes its closest approach to Earth

Concordia College Organizes a 2020 Collegiate Drone-Building Challenge

Space-X’s Demo-2 Crew Dragon Mission

Apply now for summer 2020 NASA Center internships

Freshman Seminar on Airships at U of MN – Twin Cities

The Space Grant Midwest High-Power “Efficient Supersonic” Rocket Competition judged results announced

Space Grant Midwest Region “Short Talks” public videocon on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2-3 p.m. CT

The MnSGC to host the 2019-2020 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition on May 16-17, 2020

Michele Brekke: Meet and Greet

NASA’s “The Future in Space” – a webcast for college/university students

Midwest Region: Three “Space Grant Short Talks” delivered by videocon on Friday, April 19

The Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Program: Dr. Pamela Ronald

InSight Lander Touches Down on Martian Surface

Roger Launius to lecture on the Apollo Program and the Space Race

Freshman Seminar on Airships at U of MN – Twin Cities

New High-Power Rocket Teams Launched on Nov. 10

U of MN Rocket Team Sets a Guinness World Record

UMN SmallSat HASP 2018

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

Macalester College Fields Their First High-Power Rocketry Team

U of MN Freshmen Experience First Ballooning Flight

Great American Eclipse 2017