Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program Update
NASA Grant Energizes Student-Developed Mars Project
By Leonard David
Senior Space Writer
posted: 30 September 2005
06:38 am ET
Future explorers of Mars got a literal leg up thanks to a NASA research grant provided to a student space project.
The Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program announced September 21 that they have received a $200,000 NASA advanced projects development grant. The funding will support development of a full payload engineering model, as well as make possible a number of tasks that push the project nearer to a real-time liftoff.
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