Dr. Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, is recruiting minority college students to NASA’s Reduced Gravity Flight Program for 2011. Please pass along through your networks. For more information please visit this website:
Any full- or part-time student at an eligible historically black college, minority-servicing institution or community college who is a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years old may apply. Applicants need a team of four students and one professor or mentor to fly with them. Each team may also designate one alternate.
The application, including details on all requirements, is available from the NASA Minority Innovation Challenges Institute website. The deadline is Jan. 26, 2011, although interested students should submit a letter of intent by Jan. 12, which notifies the agency that the team plans to submit a proposal.