UNM Sustainable Space Research Grand Challenge

Overview

Our mission is to expand New Mexico's scientific, creative, and economic horizons beyond Earth through university, commercial, and national lab collaboration.Develop a center of space science-exploration excellence on the UNM campuses by identifying and uniting relevant and diverse space expertise and maturing an appropriate research-technology infrastructure. Use this multidisciplinary team to competitively seek space research and exploration funding. Partner with the national laboratories and private companies to build a New Mexico Space Economy. Engage students from a variety of disciplines to develop a future work force and an entrepreneurial foundation for growing a Space Economy. Engage the citizens of New Mexico in educational outreach; communicate and coordinate space related activities with the State legislature and governor’s office. By fulfilling goals 1-5, develop a New Mexico space economy that will benefit the citizens of New Mexico.