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 USD 990,111 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division. The purpose is to create short 2-4 minute video highlights of NASA-related science discoveries and distribute them to hundreds of planetariums, targeting the public and K-12/college students. The goal is to engage students and the public by portraying...
This is a $147,943.98 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to American University, a private university in Washington, D.C. The agreement funds analysis of optical and infrared spectral observations of comets, asteroids, and giant planets to study the physical and chemical conditions of the protosolar disk during planet formation. The work involves analyzing spectral data from ground-based telescopes like Keck and IRTF...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC23K0948, was granted by the Shared Services Center (a civilian agency) to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (SIU) to support the "CITIZEN SCIENCE FOR 2024: THE DYNAMIC ECLIPSE BROADCAST INITIATIVE" project. The $314,440.00 grant is for research and does not have a set-aside designation. SIU, a public research university, will utilize this funding to provide scientific research, analysis, and technical services related to...
This is a $165,564,175 federal contract awarded by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) for the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) mission. The contract is a definitive contract with cost-no-fee pricing. The ultimate completion date is September 30, 2027. The COSI mission is a NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer program, which solicits proposals for Principal Investigator-led space science investigations. COSI will address NASA's strategic...
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...
This is a federal cooperative agreement award from the Shared Services Center (an agency within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)) to the Space Science Institute (SSI), a nonprofit research organization based in Boulder, Colorado. The overarching objective of this $987,103.00 project is to partner with public libraries to help inform, engage, and inspire new and underserved public audiences. The award does not have a set-aside designation. SSI has extensive experience...
This is a $56,687,821.00 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), doing business as the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), to build an integrated astrophysics STEM learning and literacy program called "NASA's Universe of Learning." The program will develop and deliver a suite of educational products, programs, and professional development across the full spectrum of NASA astrophysics, including the Cosmic...
This is a $79,911 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Illinois. The grant is for joint observations between the NuSTAR and XMM-Newton space telescopes of a periodically variable quasar recently discovered by the Dark Energy Survey. The award has no set-aside designation and is a research grant contract. The University of Illinois, as the prime grantee, will conduct the scientific research and provide NASA...
This federal contract award, valued at $1,705,467.00, was granted to the University of Illinois (the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to execute a balanced science program. The contract requires the University to participate as a key partner in NASA's exploration initiative, focusing on scientific research related to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Additionally, the University will advance discovery in emerging fields by...
This cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, doing business as Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), to support the CosmoQuest virtual research facility. CosmoQuest is an online citizen science platform that engages students and the public in NASA science activities. The $1,432,338.99 award will allow CosmoQuest to leverage existing software and human networks to expand NASA's citizen science offerings within an educational framework. CosmoQuest provides science-quality data to professional researchers studying celestial bodies like the Moon, Mercury, and Vesta. The project also supports lifelong learning through courses, lesson plans, and interactive experiences for planetariums. This fully scalable facility will be available to support citizen science initiatives across all of NASA's science divisions. The contract does not have a set-aside designation.