Boeing partnership opens space pathway for Indigenous students

Monash University has announced its first industry partnership for the National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA), with Boeing Australia committing to fully fund a student place in the program.

Led by Monash Engineering and supported by the Australian Space Agency and CSIRO, NISA gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students hands-on experience at the forefront of space exploration through placements at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and RAL Space in the United Kingdom.

Now in its third year, NISA has become a hallmark of Indigenous excellence in STEM, fostering global research pathways and embedding Indigenous knowledge and perspectives in the future of space science.

Professor Christopher Lawrence, Director of the National Indigenous Space Academy and Professor of Practice in Space Innovation and Security Capabilities Monash Engineering, says the scholarship will have a transformative impact.

“NISA is life changing for our students, empowering them to work on real-life space missions. The Boeing scholarship will support an Indigenous student to literally reach for the stars and shape their future – perhaps as our first Indigenous Australian astronaut.”

Read more about NISA here.

Learn more about Boeing here.