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    The secret to writing a great NASA proposal

    By Chelle Gentemann

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    Level College / Upper Division (Undergraduates), Graduate / Professional, Career / Technical, Adult Education · For Student, Teacher, Administrator, Librarian, researcher · Language English

    Abstract

    Use a real NASA proposal as a roadmap and follow these tips for clearly presenting your research ideas. I’m a 100% soft money-funded research scientist primarily funded by NASA research grants. I teamed with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to lead a $190M NASA proposal. JPL’s mission formulation group provided a lot of help and guidance to our team. What I learned applies to most proposals, whether they are for $100K or $100M.

    Keywords NASA · Grant Writing