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Resources:
SpacePartnerships.com has many resources at its command for finding existing technologies, performing research,
developing new technologies and creating new education programs related to space exploration. These resources start
with the founder and president, Dr. Frank Schowengerdt (see resume). Dr. Schowengerdt has over 35 years experience
in the creation, operation and promotion of partnerships involving industry, academia and government. He was involved in
the founding of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute, which brought together the five research universities in
Colorado to do research in technologies vital to the State's economy. He was the founder and first chairman of the board
of the Colorado Advanced Materials Institute, which included the Colorado research universities together with most of the
State's high-tech industries. He was the founder and first director of the Center for Commercial Applications of
Combustion in Space, one of NASA's Research Partnership Centers. And, finally, he was the director of the Space
Product Development program and the Innovative Partnerships program at NASA headquarters.
Resources available for partnering through SpacePartnerships.com are listed below
The Research Partnership Centers
The Research Partnership Centers are consortia of industrial, academic and government partners engaged in research and
development to create and apply new technologies to space exploration and space commerce. Each of the RPCs is listed
below, with the director's name, contact information and link to individual web sites:
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)
Osteoprotegerin for bone loss prevention, animal habitat control for space flight, plant lignin biosynthesis and cell wall
biogenesis, and bioreactor system design.
Dr. Louis Stodieck, Director
BioServe Space Technologies
University of Colorado – Boulder
429 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0439
Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE)
Real-time bioreactor systems for bone loss research, DNA damage repair due to radiation and immune system changes;
development of pathogen detection systems for air, water and food supplies; robotics; and thermal control freezer systems.
Dr. Larry DeLucas, Director
Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering
University of Alabama – Birmingham
CBSE 100
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4400
Center for Space Resources
Space Resources, including In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), Water mist fire suppression, combustion synthesis of
advanced porous materials, fire suppression in spacecraft, propellant from space resources, and a robotic excavator.
Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid
Center for Space Resources
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
HyNet (Maryland Hybrid Networks Center)
Swarm robotics for space missions and exploration, wireless networks with mobile autonomous components; and hybrid
communication networks for mission communications, sensor networks, telemedicine and satellite constellations.
Dr. John S. Baras, Director
HyNet
University of Maryland
0200 Engineering Annex Building
College Park, MD 20742
Center for Space Power (CSP)
Magnetic bearing technology for advanced, high-speed gyros and flywheels to store energy or provide navigational
control, multi-quantum well solar cells for mass reductions, phase separator for life support, and wireless power
transmission.
Dr. Frederick Best, Director
Center for Space Power
Texas A&M University
3118 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3118
Center for Space Exploration Power Systems
High-efficiency electric thruster system, flywheels, supercapacitors and fuel cells for energy storage, high-power
switching devices, and smart power electronics assemblies with 20-year lifetimes.
Dr. Henry W. Brandhorst Jr., Director
Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics
Auburn University
Space Research Institute
231 Leach Center
Auburn University, AL 36849-5320
Texas Center for Advanced Materials (TCAM)
Radiation hard solar cells, high-temperature superconducting power transmission for spacecraft, chemical sensors for
environmental monitoring and medical diagnosis, and thermophotovoltaic converters
Dr. Alex Ignatiev, Director
Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials
University of Houston
Houston Science Center
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204-5502
Other Research Centers
Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)
PISCES is a research and education center devoted to developing technologies to sustain humans on the Moon and
beyond. Founded in 2007 at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo and initially funded by the Hawai`i State Legislature, PISCES
engages in space exploration research and operates an analog test site on the lower slopes of Mauna Kea on the Big
Island. Opportunities exist for partnering with PISCES in research, technology development and analog testing.
Dr. Frank Schowengerdt, Director
Professor of Physics
University of Hawai`i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
Education
SpaceClass
This program, founded by former RPC education and outreach coordinator, Beth McKnight, and operated by McKnight
Communications, is an online instructional program designed for grades 5-12 to "make science fun" and thereby
encourage youth to take more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses through the
excitement of space. Contact information is given below:
Beth McKnight
McKnight Communications
Auburn, OR
Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)
PISCES is a research and education center devoted to developing technologies to sustain humans on the Moon and
beyond. Founded in 2007 at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo and initially funded by the Hawai`i State Legislatures,
PISCES teaches university-level classes in space exploration and conducts informal space education programs at K-12
schools on the Big Island of Hawai`i. All of these programs present opportunities for partnering in educational activities.
Dr. Frank Schowengerdt, Director
Professor of Physics
University of Hawai`i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
SpacePartnerships.com has many resources at its command for finding existing technologies, performing research,
developing new technologies and creating new education programs related to space exploration. These resources start
with the founder and president, Dr. Frank Schowengerdt (see resume). Dr. Schowengerdt has over 35 years experience
in the creation, operation and promotion of partnerships involving industry, academia and government. He was involved in
the founding of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute, which brought together the five research universities in
Colorado to do research in technologies vital to the State's economy. He was the founder and first chairman of the board
of the Colorado Advanced Materials Institute, which included the Colorado research universities together with most of the
State's high-tech industries. He was the founder and first director of the Center for Commercial Applications of
Combustion in Space, one of NASA's Research Partnership Centers. And, finally, he was the director of the Space
Product Development program and the Innovative Partnerships program at NASA headquarters.
Resources available for partnering through SpacePartnerships.com are listed below
The Research Partnership Centers
The Research Partnership Centers are consortia of industrial, academic and government partners engaged in research and
development to create and apply new technologies to space exploration and space commerce. Each of the RPCs is listed
below, with the director's name, contact information and link to individual web sites:
BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe)
Osteoprotegerin for bone loss prevention, animal habitat control for space flight, plant lignin biosynthesis and cell wall
biogenesis, and bioreactor system design.
Dr. Louis Stodieck, Director
BioServe Space Technologies
University of Colorado – Boulder
429 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0439
Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE)
Real-time bioreactor systems for bone loss research, DNA damage repair due to radiation and immune system changes;
development of pathogen detection systems for air, water and food supplies; robotics; and thermal control freezer systems.
Dr. Larry DeLucas, Director
Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering
University of Alabama – Birmingham
CBSE 100
1530 3rd Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294-4400
Center for Space Resources
Space Resources, including In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), Water mist fire suppression, combustion synthesis of
advanced porous materials, fire suppression in spacecraft, propellant from space resources, and a robotic excavator.
Dr. Angel Abbud-Madrid
Center for Space Resources
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO 80401
HyNet (Maryland Hybrid Networks Center)
Swarm robotics for space missions and exploration, wireless networks with mobile autonomous components; and hybrid
communication networks for mission communications, sensor networks, telemedicine and satellite constellations.
Dr. John S. Baras, Director
HyNet
University of Maryland
0200 Engineering Annex Building
College Park, MD 20742
Center for Space Power (CSP)
Magnetic bearing technology for advanced, high-speed gyros and flywheels to store energy or provide navigational
control, multi-quantum well solar cells for mass reductions, phase separator for life support, and wireless power
transmission.
Dr. Frederick Best, Director
Center for Space Power
Texas A&M University
3118 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3118
Center for Space Exploration Power Systems
High-efficiency electric thruster system, flywheels, supercapacitors and fuel cells for energy storage, high-power
switching devices, and smart power electronics assemblies with 20-year lifetimes.
Dr. Henry W. Brandhorst Jr., Director
Center for Space Power and Advanced Electronics
Auburn University
Space Research Institute
231 Leach Center
Auburn University, AL 36849-5320
Texas Center for Advanced Materials (TCAM)
Radiation hard solar cells, high-temperature superconducting power transmission for spacecraft, chemical sensors for
environmental monitoring and medical diagnosis, and thermophotovoltaic converters
Dr. Alex Ignatiev, Director
Texas Center for Superconductivity and Advanced Materials
University of Houston
Houston Science Center
4800 Calhoun Road
Houston, TX 77204-5502
Other Research Centers
Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)
PISCES is a research and education center devoted to developing technologies to sustain humans on the Moon and
beyond. Founded in 2007 at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo and initially funded by the Hawai`i State Legislature, PISCES
engages in space exploration research and operates an analog test site on the lower slopes of Mauna Kea on the Big
Island. Opportunities exist for partnering with PISCES in research, technology development and analog testing.
Dr. Frank Schowengerdt, Director
Professor of Physics
University of Hawai`i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
Education
SpaceClass
This program, founded by former RPC education and outreach coordinator, Beth McKnight, and operated by McKnight
Communications, is an online instructional program designed for grades 5-12 to "make science fun" and thereby
encourage youth to take more Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses through the
excitement of space. Contact information is given below:
Beth McKnight
McKnight Communications
Auburn, OR
Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES)
PISCES is a research and education center devoted to developing technologies to sustain humans on the Moon and
beyond. Founded in 2007 at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo and initially funded by the Hawai`i State Legislatures,
PISCES teaches university-level classes in space exploration and conducts informal space education programs at K-12
schools on the Big Island of Hawai`i. All of these programs present opportunities for partnering in educational activities.
Dr. Frank Schowengerdt, Director
Professor of Physics
University of Hawai`i at Hilo
200 W. Kawili St.
Hilo, HI 96720
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Phone: 303-492-4010
Fax: 303-492-8883
Email: stodieck@colorado.edu
http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/BioServe
Fax: 303-492-8883
Email: stodieck@colorado.edu
http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/BioServe
Phone: 205-934-5329
Fax: 205-934-2659
Email: delucas@cbse.uab.edu
http://www.cbse.uab.edu
Fax: 205-934-2659
Email: delucas@cbse.uab.edu
http://www.cbse.uab.edu
Phone: 303-384-2300
Email: aabbudma@mines.edu
http://www.mines.edu/research/csr/
Email: aabbudma@mines.edu
http://www.mines.edu/research/csr/
Phone: 301-405-7900
Fax: 301-314-8586
Email: baras@isr.umd.edu
http://www.isr.umd.edu/CSHCN
Fax: 301-314-8586
Email: baras@isr.umd.edu
http://www.isr.umd.edu/CSHCN
Phone: 979-845-8768
Fax: 979-847-8857
Email: frb4492@teesex.tamu.edu
http://engineering.tamu.edu/tees/csp/index.html
Fax: 979-847-8857
Email: frb4492@teesex.tamu.edu
http://engineering.tamu.edu/tees/csp/index.html
Phone: 334-844-5894
Fax: 334-844-5900
Email: brandhh@auburn.edu
http://sri.auburn.edu
Fax: 334-844-5900
Email: brandhh@auburn.edu
http://sri.auburn.edu
Phone: 713-743-8200
Fax: 713-747-7724
Email: ignatiev@uh.edu
http://www.cam.uh.edu
Fax: 713-747-7724
Email: ignatiev@uh.edu
http://www.cam.uh.edu
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Phone: 303-709-5337
Email: beth@mcknightcommunications.com
http://www.spaceclass.org
Email: beth@mcknightcommunications.com
http://www.spaceclass.org
Phone: 571-309-3815
Email: schoweng@hawaii.edu
http://pisces.hilo.hawaii.edu
Email: schoweng@hawaii.edu
http://pisces.hilo.hawaii.edu
Phone: 571-309-3815
Email: schoweng@hawaii.edu
http://pisces.hilo.hawaii.edu
Email: schoweng@hawaii.edu
http://pisces.hilo.hawaii.edu