A: After consulting with counsel and in a good faith effort to comply with the Executive Orders to the best of our understanding of their terms, USRA/LPI removed (not deleted) all DEI-related content ...

Recognizing that education and outreach opportunities exist not only in but beyond the classroom, USRA supports a broad range of activities targeted at a wide, diverse audience, both inside and ...

Universities Space Research Association (“USRA”) manages the Lunar and Planetary Institute (“LPI”) under a cooperative agreement with NASA. USRA also manages NASA’s Planetary Science Analysis Groups ...

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 ...

While always interested in space, Shae became interested in engineering after having the opportunity in her senior year of high school to shadow one of the lead engineers at Lockheed Martin who was ...

Shannon first found her passion for data science while on her deployment to Afghanistan in 2014 with the Army National Guard. She found an interest in intelligence analysis and saw what the impact of ...

Shreyas always thought that space was "really cool", and watched NOVA and Bill Nye reruns with his family all the time. As a 10-year old, one of his favorite biographies was on Einstein. In high ...

Tyler became interested in astronomy and physics in high school with his first physics class. In college, he became passionate about planetary science and began to study space exploration in his free ...

Theo finds astronomy fascinating “because there’s always a new topic that can be explored or perspective to be considered.” Theo is interested in star formation and the interstellar medium, as well as ...

Bella is captivated by “the vastness of our universe and the seamless overlap of various astrophysics disciplines”. Her fascination with astronomy started with a book her third grade teacher shared ...

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, ...

When she was young, teaching was Kristina's dream career. In high school, Kristina was inspired to study astronomy and physics by her physics teacher. She's happy teaching is still her dream career ...