This is a $2,533,777.00 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to The Adler Planetarium, a non-profit science museum in Chicago, to build the NASA Citizen Science Community using the Zooniverse platform. The agreement, which has a period of performance through September 30, 2025, is focused on engaging the public in citizen science initiatives that support NASA's missions and research goals. This contract builds upon the Planetarium's expertise in astronomy education and public engagement,...
This is a $633,468 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Adler Planetarium, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, Illinois. The contract, titled "Climate Change and Me: Engaging Young People with NASA Data, Missions, and Careers through Immersive Visualizations, Planetarium Programs, and Virtual Experiences," runs from June 2022 to September 2026. The agreement focuses on developing educational programs and immersive...
This contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is for the "Disk Detective: Finding Circumstellar Disks with WISE and 100,000 New Colleagues" project. The primary contractor is the Adler Planetarium, a non-profit science museum in Chicago that focuses on astronomy education and public engagement. The contract, valued at $80,741.84, will fund updates to the Disk Detective citizen science website and incorporate new data analysis methods into the...
This federal contract award is a $4,529,657.39 cooperative agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), a non-profit organization. The award is for the "COSMOQUEST: ENGAGING STUDENTS & THE PUBLIC THROUGH A VIRTUAL RESEARCH FACILITY" program, which aims to leverage citizen science and STEM education to support NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) data utilization. The...
This is a $1,400,000.00 grant contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Chicago, a private non-profit educational institution and leading research university. The contract is for research to study nucleosynthetic isotopic anomalies and chronology in cometary, interstellar, and asteroidal dust, as well as elemental abundances in solar wind. Measurements will be conducted using the Chicago Instrument for Laser Ionization (CHILI), a...
This is a $7,693,200.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Exploratorium, a non-profit science museum in San Francisco, California. The purpose of the contract is to produce and disseminate live webcasts, video installations, and educational resources focused on total solar eclipses over the period of January 4, 2016 to December 31, 2025. This contract supports NASA's "Navigating the Path of Totality" program, which aims...
This is a $23,358,744.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a non-profit research organization. The award is part of NASA's strategic goal to support open, interdisciplinary science and will extend SAO's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) services to cover all scientific disciplines supported by NASA's Science Mission Directorate, including Planetary Science,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC21K0374, is a $1,302,500.00 grant for research awarded to the University of Chicago by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract has no set-aside designation and is set to be completed by March 31, 2026. The grant supports scientific research, with a revised budget that reduces the number of postdoctoral researchers from one to one-half, while the other half would come from the university's own...
This is a $515,863 grant contract awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Field Museum of Natural History, doing business as the Research Center, located in Chicago, Illinois. The contract is for a project titled "Refractory Minerals - Archives from the Early Solar System" and runs from January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2024. The contract is a grant for research and does not involve any set-aside designation or...
This is a $9,952,400 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization in Boulder, Colorado. The project, titled "NASA My Library: A National Earth and Space Science Initiative that Connects NASA, Public Libraries and Their Communities," aims to develop effective STEM programs in public libraries using NASA resources and subject matter experts. The goal is to reach underserved populations, such as...