This is a $168,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The purpose of the grant is to support a project that aims to bridge the gap between theory and reality for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) for interplanetary missions through experimentation and simulation. The grant has an ultimate completion date of July 31, 2026. Rice University has a strong track record...
This is a $855,915.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. The grant is for a research project titled "CONSTRAINING THE ORIGIN AND TIMESCALE OF LUNAR MG-SUITE MAGMATISM" and is part of NASA's broader effort to "EXECUTE A BALANCED SCIENCE PROGRAM" and "PARTICIPATE AS A KEY PARTNER AND ENABLER IN THE AGENCY'S EXPLORATION INITIATIVE, FOCUSING ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OF, ON, AND FROM...
This federal contract award is a $963,000.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The grant is for the "RICE UNIVERSITY-HISD PLANETARY AND SPACE EXPLORATION EDUCATION PROJECT" and has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. The contract is not set aside for any specific business type. Rice University has a history of securing federal...
This federal contract award is a $333,500.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The grant is part of NASA's NSTGRO fellowship program, which focuses on graduate student research and development of advanced and innovative space technologies critical for NASA's goals to explore and understand the Earth, our solar system, and the universe. The contract has...
This federal contract award, valued at $150,000.00, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The award is for a research grant titled "FATE OF NITROGEN DURING EARLY SILICATE DIFFERENTIATION OF ROCKY BODIES CONSTRAINED BY MINERAL-MELT PARTITIONING". The contract has no set-aside designation and is scheduled for completion by August 31, 2026. Rice University,...
This federal contract award, with ID 80NSSC25K7505, was granted by the Shared Services Center (an agency with ID 8000|8000|80NSSC-A) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The contract is a $803,728.00 grant for research, with no set-aside designation. The contract aims to execute a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies, administration priorities, and congressional direction. Key focus areas include...
This federal grant award to William Marsh Rice University, located in Houston, Texas, is focused on understanding the distribution and behavior of volatile elements like carbon, hydrogen, sulfur, and nitrogen during the formation and evolution of planetary bodies. The $475,000 grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), involves experimental and modeling work to study how these volatiles partition between metallic cores, silicate mantles, and atmospheres during...
This is a $599,856.10 grant award to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for research to quantitatively understand the effects of plasma-sheet bubble injections in the near-Earth magnetosphere. The research aims to address specific questions related to the characteristics of plasma-sheet bubbles, their observable signatures, and the role of large-scale convection and...
This is a $90,000.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to William Marsh Rice University, a private research university located in Houston, Texas. The contract is for the university to execute a balanced science program based on guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, administration priorities, and direction from Congress. The award has an ultimate completion date of September 14, 2026. Rice University has a history of...
This is a $48,559.06 grant awarded to William Marsh Rice University, doing business as Rice University, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research in alignment with the goals of the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSEC) 2.0 program. The contract is focused on inspiring and educating students, especially women and underrepresented minorities, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas. Rice University has been a successful partner with NSSEC...