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1. NASA TO AWARD $80,000 IN RICE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
2. NASA TV TO AIR TUESDAY'S SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:10:59 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TO AWARD $80,000 IN RICE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION

March 09, 2009

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

Report #J09-005

NASA TO AWARD $80,000 IN RICE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION

HOUSTON – The Innovation Partnerships Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has announced the addition of three separate $20,000 awards to one already granted, bringing the total to $80,000, to be presented as part of the 2009 Rice University Business Plan Competition

The three new prizes will be awarded for the best business plans representing an engineering technology that has applications to both the NASA space program and to earth-based activities, according to Michele Brekke, director of the JSC Innovation Partnerships Office (IPO)

The 2009 Rice Business Plan Competition will take place April 16-18 This is the second year for the IPO and the Space Life Sciences Directorate at JSC to be part of the Rice Business Competition, and the first year for JSC’s Engineering Directorate to offer prize money In 2008, JSC launched its support of the Rice competition with a $20,000 prize funded by the IPO and the Space Life Sciences Directorate

“Being part of the Rice Alliance gives us the opportunity to encourage innovation with industry and academia,” said Steve Altemus, director of the Engineering Directorate

“We are excited about sponsoring three prizes this year I’m confident that through venues like this, JSC Engineering can cultivate and grow exciting new partnerships and benefit from the diversity of this group in the way we bring engineering solutions to human spaceflight,” added Altemus

In 2008, the NASA Earth/Space Life Science Innovation Award went to HeartSounds from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a technology that has the potential to provide wireless diagnostic medical data for the medical care of a crew member during spaceflight, according to Dr Jeffrey R Davis, director of the Space Life Sciences Directorate

“Our goal is to identify a promising technology that may have an application to improving human health and performance during spaceflight By participating in this competition, we hope to identify new technologies at an early phase of development that we later fly on the International Space Station or forecast for use during the Constellation program We can evaluate emerging technologies designed for terrestrial applications that could have applications to human spaceflight We especially see possibilities with commercial home health development,” said Davis

The Rice Business Plan Competition is a three-day event intended to simulate the real-world process of entrepreneurs soliciting start-up funds from early stage investors and venture capital firms

The Competition, hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, will award $700,000 in prizes The grand prize package is worth more than $350,000 Other special prizes will be awarded in Sustainability, Aerospace, Life Science, Energy, IT and Medical Devices

For more information the JSC Innovation Partnerships Office, visit:

http://technology jsc nasa gov/

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Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 15:18:17 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TV TO AIR TUESDAY'S SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

March 9, 2009

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M09-036

NASA TV TO AIR TUESDAY'S SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the March 10 spacewalk of Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov The pair will complete unfinished work from their December 2008 excursion outside the orbiting laboratory

Fincke and Lonchakov will don Russian spacesuits for the spacewalk out of the Russian Pirs Docking Compartment airlock Flight Engineer Sandra Magnus will monitor the spacewalk from inside the station It will be the sixth spacewalk of Fincke's career and the second for Lonchakov

NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 11 a m CDT Tuesday The spacewalk will start at approximately 11:20 a m and last six hours

The centerpiece of the spacewalk will be the installation of a European materials science experiment, which allows short and long-term exposure to space conditions and solar UV-radiation, on the hull of the Zvezda service module The experiment, known as Expose, was installed on Zvezda during the December spacewalk but had to be removed and brought back inside the station because of a cable problem That problem has been repaired

For information about NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the space station and the Expedition 18 crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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