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Texas A&M Planing $200M Houston Space Institute
Texas A&M officials are planning a new $200 million space institute that will work with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Once built, it will be the first of its kind in the U.S. Along with support mission training, robotics and aeronautics work, the new facility will replicate both the Mars and lunar surfaces, allowing better training and technology opportunities.
The project, much of which is being funded through the state of Texas, is currently in the design process.
The college has more than 300 ongoing space projects, which total up to $50 million worth of research. Texas A&M University employs four astronauts. Scientists and engineers from the university have participated in all NASA rover missions to Mars, and two Texas A&M scientists are active on NASA’s Perseverance rover team.
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