Jonathan got hooked on computer science when his father showed him a tutorial for creating and coding the classic Space Invaders game from scratch. He subsequently spent five frenzied months in each ...

Dr. Elsayed R. Talaat serves as President and CEO at USRA. Before joining USRA, Dr. Talaat was Director of the Office of Space Weather Observations at NESDIS where he provided leadership and oversight ...

As a 10-year old, Sapphira was set on a career in architecture and interior design. But an introductory pilot flight near the end of high school inspired a passion for flying and sparked her curiosity ...

Ayanna grew up in a low-income Black household in Detroit, “navigating a labyrinth”, and being taught, as she says, “to live life as an undetected black girl in America because that is what I must do ...

Grady enrolled at the University of Florida as an astrophysics major but was drawn to planetary science, as he says, “due to the field's innate interdisciplinary ties to geoscience, physics, and ...

As a youngster, Tyler always thought anything about space was fascinating and wanted to do something related to it. This interest paused in his teenage years, but he has pursued it with a vengeance in ...

USRA presents up to five scholarship awards to undergraduate students each fall as part of its Distinguished Undergraduate Award program. Applicants must be full-time undergraduate students attending ...

USRA provides expertise in space physical sciences to NASA by conducting and managing research in fluid physics, combustion, colloids/condensed matter, and modeling of biological systems. A ...

USRA is an independent, nonprofit research corporation where the combined efforts of in-house talent and university-based expertise merge to advance space science and technology. USRA was founded in ...

Jeff Isaacson became USRA’s seventh President and Chief Executive Officer in 2014. USRA operates in association with 121 leading universities to support NASA, DoD, DOE, and NSF in the areas of science ...

Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is committed to ensuring that qualified businesses of all types receive meaningful subcontracting and vendor opportunities with us. To begin the process, ...