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NASA Announces Early Stage Innovation Space Technology Research Grants

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2016 — (PRNewswire) —

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2016  NASA has selected 13 university-led proposals for the study of innovative, early stage technologies that address high priority needs of America's space program.

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The Early Stage Innovations (ESI) grants from NASA's Space Technology Research Grants Program are worth as much as $500,000 each. Universities have two to three years to work on their proposed research and development projects.

"NASA's Early Stage Innovations grants provide U.S. universities the opportunity to conduct research and technology development to advance NASA's scientific discovery and exploration goals," said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington. "Partnering with academia in advancing these critical areas of research ensures we are engaging the best and brightest minds in enabling the agency's future robotic and human space flight missions."

The proposals selected under the Early Stage Innovations 2016 solicitation address unique, disruptive or transformational technologies in a variety of areas. The 13 selected proposals for ESI grants are:

High Fidelity Modeling of Parachute Inflation Dynamics

Modeling and Simulation-Based Certification of Additive Manufacturing Processing Parameters

Electric Propulsion Physics Theory and Model Development

Modeling Radiation Failure Mechanisms in Wide-bandgap Semiconductor Materials to Power Devices

Advanced Telescope Architecture Technologies and Optical Components

Autonomous Planning for Human Spaceflight

The goal of the Space Technology Research Grants program is to accelerate the development of space technologies in their earliest stages to enable future systems capabilities and missions for NASA, other government agencies and the commercial space sector.

The program is funded by NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is responsible for developing the cross-cutting, pioneering, new technologies and capabilities needed by the agency to achieve its current and future missions.

For more information about NASA's Space Technology Research Grants Program, visit:

http://go.usa.gov/X9eP

For more information about the Space Technology Mission Directorate, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/spacetech

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