Rebecca Jones

Jul 30, 2025

Zena Cardman to Lead SpaceX Crew 11

Astronaut Zena Cardman, keynote for NC Space Grant Symposium in 2021 and NC Space Grant supported scholar, will launch this week as mission commander for SpaceX Crew 11. Liftoff is…

Jul 29, 2025

NC Space Grant Announces 2025-2026 Faculty Research Recipients

North Carolina Space Grant is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025-2026 Faculty Research Grants. The selected faculty members will make research contributions in engineering, atmospheric science, astrobotany, and…

Jul 7, 2025

A Star is Born

Read about star formation research by Sophia Kressy, an NC Space Grant Graduate Research Fellow

Jun 13, 2025

NC Space Grant Welcomes Crew 5 to the Space Education Ambassadors Program

NC Space Grant proudly announces the selection of 15 outstanding educators from 14 counties across North Carolina as members of the fifth cohort—Crew 5—of the North Carolina Space Education Ambassadors…

Jun 6, 2025

An NC Space Grant Funded Project Goes to Space

The students in Dr. Rafael Loureiro’s astrobotany lab launched an experiment on the recent Blue Origin’s all-female mission. Loureiro, head of the Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) Astrobotany Lab, received a…

May 15, 2025

NC Space Grant Scholar, David Warren, Earns First Place at 2025 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference

May 12, 2025

Heating Up: Modeling Hotspots on Aerospace Structures

Achieving flight is one of the greatest technological advancements of our time. At high speeds, aerodynamic forces such as drag can cause parts of the plane, such as regions on…

Apr 3, 2025

“The Stuff of Other Worlds”: Extraterrestrial Materials Give Us Clues About Life on Earth

Dr. Eileen Stansbery, division chief for astromaterials research and exploration science at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, to speak at NC Space Grant’s annual Symposium on April 11, 2025. When Ed…