The first crewed Artemis flight marks a key step toward long‑term return to the Moon and future missions to Mars.
NASA is bringing its expertise to Houston’s innovation hub! Every other Friday, join us for NASA’s office hours, designed to bridge the gap between Houston’s innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups with NASA’s elite experts, capabilities, and technology.
License the Future: Discover how to utilize NASA-developed technologies and intellectual property for your own projects.
Partner for Growth: Explore how to grow your own goals and NASA’s mission together by leveraging unique human spaceflight capabilities and expertise from NASA Johnson Space Center.
Build the Sector: Help us grow Houston’s commercial space ecosystem.
Come with a vision, leave with a partnership.
Just come walk up and say hello, or sign up in advance here.
Hosted by the Space Workforce Incubator for Texas (SWIFT), Ecosystem Space takes place every second Thursday and brings together visionaries, builders, and collaborators driving the next era of the space economy. This month our community partner will be SystemsGo - whose mission is to enhance education for better workforce development and to ignite tomorrow’s innovators.
The Rice Business Plan Competition gives collegiate entrepreneurs real-world experience to pitch their startups, enhance their business strategy and learn what it takes to launch a successful company. 2026 marks our 26th year of the Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), presented by Rice Business. Rice Business, in its 51st year, is the home to the No. 1 Graduate Entrepreneurship Program and shares our mission to empower the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. Hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, the RBPC has grown to become the world’s largest and richest student start-up competition, with 42 teams competing for more than $1 million in cash, investments and prizes.
These are the early days of our future.
