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Dr. James Flaten
Associate Director of NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Dr. James Flaten is a contract professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Dr. Flaten serves as the Associate Director of the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC), a NASA higher-education program which involves state-wide promotion of all-things-NASA-related. He […]Read More »

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U of MN – Duluth’s Bulldog Rocketry Team
The Bulldog Rocketry Team from the University of Minnesota – Duluth designed and built a rocket, propelled by a student designed hybrid engine, to fly in the 30,000 ft class at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC). That rocket finished second in their category in this international rocketry competition. A link to a 14-minute video […]Read More »

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Competition Announcement: High-Power Rockets 2026-2027
Competition Announcement: Unique NASA Opportunity to Design, Build, and Launch High-Power Rockets The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC: www.mnspacegrant.org), working with the Tripoli, Minnesota, High-Power Rocketry Club (www.tripolimn.org), hereby announces the 2026-2027 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition. The fly-off will be held in Minnesota, but this competition is open to college and university student teams […]Read More »

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Minnesota Space Grant

107 Akerman Hall
110 Union Street SE
Minneapolis MN 55455
(P) 612-626-9295
(F) 612-626-1558