Announcement Number: NNH25ZHA001C-EPSCORISS
Released: April 29, 2025
Notice of Intent Due: May 21, 2025
Pre-Proposals (if needed) Due: June 15, 2025
Due to NSPIRES: August 1, 2025
Click here to view this year’s notice of funding opportunity for reference: ISS Opportunity.
Utilization of the ISS will further strengthen the relationships between NASA and the EPSCoR jurisdictions in the pursuit of national priorities for the advancement of science. This use of the ISS will also open new paths for the jurisdictions to compete for and win much larger spaceflight research projects.
NASA EPSCoR, through the jurisdiction’s research projects, will provide ground-based research for this effort. All proposed projects shall be mature enough to transition to a flight experiment with little or no additional NASA funding. Through this solicitation, the ISS will provide the integration and flight opportunity. There are a variety of laboratory facilities and capabilities designed to support a range of scientific disciplines on the ISS. A general overview of the research facilities and capabilities is at https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/overview/index.html.
NOI Submission
Please submit your NOI here.
Please submit your pre-proposal here.
The program parameters are:
- It is estimated that up to six (5) proposals may be selected for funding
- The maximum funding request per proposal is $150,000 for ISS. This amount is to be expended over a three-year period (preferably a one-year period per the NASA scoring rubric). *proposers are not required to fund launch costs.
- There is no cost share requirement for this opportunity
- The anticipated start date may be negotiated with the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) Grants Officer
- A maximum of one proposal will be selected to go forward from the State of Iowa. The Iowa NASA EPSCoR Technical Advisory Committee will select the winning pre-proposal if multiple NOIs are received.
- Please follow your institutional protocol for proposal and budget creation and submission to the Iowa NASA EPSCoR Office. You may reach out to nasaepscor@iastate.edu with questions.
Please see the RFP for pre-proposals here.