NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for Sept. 5, 2019

Check out the latest NASA opportunities for the education community. NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) Design Challenge Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students Information Sessions: Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. CDT and Sept. 23 at 6 p.m. CDT Letter of Intent Deadline: Sept. 27 Proposal Deadline: Oct. 25 Contact: NASA-SUITS@mail.nasa.gov NASA SUITS gives students an authentic engineering design experience supporting NASA’s Artemis mission—landing American astronauts safely on the Moon by 2024! This activity challenges students to design and create spacesuit information displays within augmented reality environments. After development, student teams travel to the NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to test their software designs with unique NASA assets.  Night Sky Network Webinars: International Observe the Moon Night 2019 Audience: Public Event Dates: Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. PDT and Sept. 11 at Noon PDT Contact: https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/contact.cfm Join the NASA Night Sky Network for a webinar about International Observe the Moon Night. This annual celebration is happening on Oct. 5, and this year’s celebration is extra special as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Webinar participants will learn about resources to enhance everyone’s understanding of our lunar companion. Click the event dates above to register. Explore Space Tech: BEST Satellite and Engineering Design Audience: Educators of Grades K-12 Event Date: Sept. 17 at 6:30 p.m. EDT Contact: barbie.buckner@nasa.gov Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for a free 60-minute webinar. Participants will learn about the International Space Station as a man-made satellite. In addition, participants will learn about the Beginning Engineering Science and Technology (BEST) activities that focus on using the engineering design process. The BEST Satellite activity tasks students with using the engineering design process to build and launch a satellite made from simple classroom supplies. Online registration is required. NASA Educational Resources for Teaching Expeditionary Life Skills Audience: Educators of Grades K-12 Event Date: Sept. 18 at 6:30 p.m. EDT Contact: d_s521@txstate.edu Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for a free 60-minute webinar. Participants will learn about a series of educational activities designed to take students through educational expeditions that will help them learn life skills that can be applied in almost every aspect of life. Online registration is required. NASA Commercial Crew Program: Mission and STEM Resource Overview #9 Audience: Educators of Grades K-12 Event Date: Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. EDT Contact: spc39@txstate.edu Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for a free 60-minute webinar. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is the next phase in space transportation, enabling industry to provide safe, reliable and cost-effective access to and from the International Space Station and low-Earth orbit. Learn about the companies, the vehicles, the crew and the STEM classroom resources related to the Commercial Crew Program. Online registration is required. Free Lecture—‘It Broke! A Story of How We Fixed It’ Audience: All Educators; Students in Grades 9-12 and Higher Education Event Date: Sept. 19-20 at 7 p.m. PDT Contact: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/contact_JPL.php After a successful flyby of the asteroid 9969 Braille, the Deep Space 1 spacecraft’s mission was almost cut short by a malfunctioning star tracker used for determining its orientation in zero gravity. Join Dr. Marc Rayman, mission director for Deep Space 1, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for a discussion about how his team repaired and saved a spacecraft that was millions of miles away. Attend the lectures in person, or view Thursday's lecture via live webcast. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies Seeks Educators for Climate Change Research Initiative Audience: Full-time 9-12 STEM Educators Who Are U.S. Citizens and Reside Within 50 Miles of NYC Program Start Date: Oct. 7 Contact: matthew.d.pearce@nasa.gov This yearlong STEM engagement opportunity allows high school STEM educators to work directly with NASA scientists, lead research teams and develop STEM curricula for their current classes. Educators participating in this opportunity will become associate researchers who integrate NASA education resources and content into their classrooms while improving STEM education within their communities. Free Lecture—‘Darkness Surrounds Us: The Other 95% of the Universe’ Audience: All Educators; Students in Grades 9-12 and Higher Education Event Date: Oct. 17-18 at 7 p.m. PDT Contact: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/contact_JPL.php All the material we can see is just a small fraction of the universe. The rest, a full 95 percent, are invisible and mysterious. These are the enigmatic dark matter and dark energy. Join astrophysicists Alina Kiessling and Jason Rhodes at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, for a discussion about how astronomers are working to map the universe’s dark matter so they can see the effects of dark energy. Attend the lectures in person, or view Thursday's lecture via live webcast. Seeking Volunteer Reviewers in Earth and Space Science Audience: Subject Matter Experts in Earth and Space Science Contact: SARA@nasa.gov NASA's Science Mission Directorate seeks subject matter experts to serve as mail-in and/or panel reviewers of proposals to ROSES and other SMD solicitations. Reviewers are needed on a regular basis as opportunities periodically open. Visit the website to find volunteer review forms and to indicate the topics in which you consider yourself to be a subject matter expert. If your skills match the needs for that review, you may be contacted to discuss scheduling. Astronaut Snoopy Launches on STEM Mission to Space Audience: Public NASA has partnered with Peanuts Worldwide to send astronaut Snoopy on a STEM mission to space. In a series of STEM books and toys, astronaut Snoopy explores the far reaches of space and gets an inside look at current NASA missions. A visit to the International Space Station, a rover ride around Mars, a glimpse of the spacesuits that keep astronauts safe and a peek into the future plans to send the first woman and next man to the Moon are all included in astronaut Snoopy’s space-themed adventures. Visit the link to learn more! NASA Commercial Crew Program: Mission and STEM Resources Overview Audience: Educators of Grades K-12 Event Date: Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. EDT Contact: stephen.p.culivan@nasa.gov Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for a free 60-minute webinar. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is the next phase in space transportation, enabling industry to provide safe, reliable and cost-effective access to and from the International Space Station and low-Earth orbit. Learn about the companies, the vehicles, the crew and the STEM classroom resources related to the Commercial Crew Program. Online registration is required. 2019 NASA SLPSRA Fluid Physics Workshop Audience: Scientists and Engineers From Academia Registration Deadline: Sept. 6 Workshop Dates: Oct. 16-17 Contact: smorrison@nasaprs.com Join NASA’s Division of Space Life and Physical Sciences Research and Applications for the Fluid Physics Workshop at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. This event will feature scientists and engineers from academia, industry and other governmental agencies to provide recommendations to NASA on future research directions for the microgravity fluid physics program