A Creative New Concept for Funding Space Exploration and Astronomy

An impressive group of individuals from the space and astronomy community have teamed up to create an innovative, out-of-the-box concept to help solve what appears to be a growing problem for researchers, scientists, educators and students: how to get funding for research and other ground-breaking projects. With NASA and National Science Foundation budgets shrinking, a new start-up called Uwingu (which means “sky” in Swahili) will be working to provide ways to keep space science thriving. (...)Read the rest of A Creative New Concept for Funding Space Exploration and Astronomy (495 words)© nancy for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Astronomy, Funding, research, Space Exploration, Uwingu Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh