April 8, 2010: As part of its ongoing mission to encourage and advance commercial space activities, The Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust, has underwritten a $15,000 prize as part of the Rice Business Plan Competition.  Read More

April 3, 2009: Three finalists in the Microgravity Research Competition, sponsored by The Heinlein Prize Trust, SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies), and the Rice Alliance have been chosen. This competition gives student researchers an exciting opportunity to advance their projects in the ultimate laboratory—in Low Earth Orbit in the microgravity environment of a private spacecraft, the SpaceX Dragon.  Read More

March 25, 2009: Nine proposals have been submitted by Florida Tech, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Universities Space Research Association, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, College of Menominee Nation, University of Texas Health Science Center, Duke University Medical Center, and University of Alabama in Huntsville.  Read More