The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium is now on Facebook!
The WSGC Facebook page offers:
A chance to connect with the Consortium and the peers in our programs
News from NASA and the National Space Grant
An opportunity to ask questions and give us feedback
Exclusive information, pictures, and updates on opportunities we are offering that will not
be sent out through email!
We invite and encourage anyone with an interest to join!
Click here to join today!
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UW-Madison Team on Mars!
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Zero Gravity team spent a week at the Mars
Desert Research Station in Grand Junction, Colorado. Using telescope
images, landscape images and outreach videos, the crew conducted habitability,
geology and space suit ergonomics studies. They created a video of their
experiences at the MDRS and it can be seen here!
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What's Happening Now!
-UPDATE: Thank you to all of our
rocket teams for a successful launch weekend!
WSGC is looking for a new PROGRAM MANAGER!
Our long-time program manager, Sharon Brandt is retiring! Please
see the link below for the job opportunity:
http://www.uwgb.edu/hr/jobs/position736.html
Coming Soon...
UPDATE: Information on the 2012 Wisconsin Space Grant Conference in UW-Whitewater:
August 16th and 17th, 2012
In the News...
The father of satellite meteorology, Vernon Suomi, has an
Earth-observing satellite named after him:
Satellite renamed to honor UW's Suomi
University of Wisconsin students spend New Years Eve at MDRS:
Ringing in the New Year "from Mars"
The WSGC funded program “Celebration of Life XVI: Healthy Bodies: On Earth and in Space!”
reaches out to children:
Summer Program Focuses on Health on Earth & in Space
University of Wisconsin students
top two other university teams in the 2011 NASA X-Hab Academic Innovation
Challenge:
University Of Wisconsin Students Win Space Habitat Competition