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 ...

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, ...

Madi’s interest in astronomy was born in the aisles of a bookstore when as an eight-year-old she was entranced by pictures of swirling supernovae on the cover of The Children’s Atlas of the Universe.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 young girl, Joanna was interested in theatre and dance. But her interest changed when her father started working toward his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. She found mechanical ...

Emily's passion for space started early and was nourished by extracurricular activities and family trips to observatories and Cape Kennedy. Emily decided to combine all three of her curiosities in ...

Angela's parents often remind her of her early fascination and the "big questions" she would ask about space and science as a child. As a chemical engineering student, she feels she has been fortunate ...

For as long as he can remember, Anthony Hennig has always been excited about space. His high school and college teachers made him curious about where he could fit into the space systems engineering ...