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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

USRA works closely with NASA, universities and industry developing advanced aeronautical technology concepts. Helicopters often provide crucial access to tough, remote locations, and pilots currently ...

USRA has continued to advance computer science and information technology in support of a broad range of scientific and engineering application domains of relevance to NASA. Accomplishments this past ...

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 ...