This federal contract award, valued at $99,901.98, is a Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents. The contract, titled "Life on Mars: Algae Cultivation for Long-Term Food and Oxygen Production", aims to support long-term human exploration of Mars by developing the ability to cultivate algae for the production of oxygen and food. The awardee, NSHE, is a prominent recipient...
This federal contract award to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents, through its Sponsored Programs Office Division, is a Cooperative Agreement with a ceiling value of $99,897.90 awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The contract supports research to investigate phosphorus and mineral extraction biomechanisms utilized by the Palo Verde plant to grow on basalt and Martian regolith simulant. The goal is to identify biomaterials and...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC20M0130, is a $99,881.00 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents. The contract, which does not have a set-aside designation, is a renewal of a previous grant entitled "ROCK, H2O and H2: Energy from Water-Rock Interactions on Mars." The purpose of this contract is to support research and development related to extended human...
This is a $99,707.91 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents to conduct research and development related to in-situ resource utilization for extended human exploration of Mars. The research aims to investigate the potential of using materials found on Mars, such as hydrogen, perchlorate, magnesium, and iron, as sources of fuel and raw materials for manufacturing. The work will...
This federal contract award is a $747,010.37 cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents. The award is to conduct research characterizing a terrestrial analog environment in the Badwater Basin (Death Valley), California that may be relevant to understanding potential signs of life on Mars. The key objectives are to: 1) identify microorganisms and their energy...
This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents, a public university system in Nevada. The contract is valued at $99,999.00 and does not have a set-aside designation. The contract is for the project "DEMONSTRATING DESERT LICHENS' EXTREME RESISTANCE TO UVC", which aims to advance space exploration goals through research on the extreme resistance...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,000,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents, through its Sponsored Programs Office Division. The contract is a Cooperative Agreement without a set-aside designation, indicating NSHE competed for the award based on its research capabilities. The contract supports the Nevada NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research...
This $99,998.00 cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents Sponsored Programs Office Division. The contract focuses on exploring the ability of the bacterium Kallotenue papyrolyticum and its enzymes to degrade a variety of polysaccharides, which could be useful for degrading lignocellulose waste during spaceflight missions. The contract has two main objectives: 1) to determine...
This federal contract award, valued at $99,866.00, was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents through its Sponsored Programs Office Division. The contract, titled "STRATEGIC APPROACHES IN SPACE MEDICINE: ASSESSING HUMAN IMMUNE T-CELL RESPONSES TO RADIATION EXPOSURE (HEOMD)", is a cooperative agreement that will focus on evaluating the effects of radiation exposure on human immune T-cell...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC20M0043, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents. The $4,239,611.00 cooperative agreement is for NSHE's Nevada Space Grant Consortium (NVSGC) to provide NASA-relevant STEM education and research opportunities for Nevada students and faculty. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. As a prominent research...