May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
...to establish a more permanent management organisation. The result was the Universities Space Research Association (USRA), chartered to foster cooperation among universities, research organisations and the US government. USRA assumed management of the...
28 January 2019
Oldest Earth rocks found on the Moon
...Earth and the bombardment that modified our planet during the dawn of life,” says Dr. David Kring, a Universities Space Research Association (USRA) scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI). There is the possibility however that the sample...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
...reducing to zero at infinity and generating the measured field at the photosphere. According to Enrique Lopez-Rodriguez, a Universities Space Research Association scientist for SOFIA and lead author on the study, “This is old physics for studying the...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... using submillimetre and infrared observations. Dr Joan Schmelz is Director of the NASA Postdoctoral Program at Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Senior Vice President of the American Astronomical Society and a former chair of the...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
.... About the author Dr Joan Schmelz is Director of the NASA Postdoctoral Program at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and her research involves observations of solar coronal loops and developing constraints for coronal heating models...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
...and intriguing bodies in the solar system," said Louise Prockter, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute/Universities Space Research Association in Houston. As principal investigator, she would lead the proposed Trident mission, and NASA's Jet...
