by Kat | Aug 14, 2023 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
8-14-2023 A free, three-year STEM program is seeking 30 San Antonio middle and high school students to design and build devices for exploring lunar caves. The Lunar Caves Analog Test Sites (LCATS) program, run by the nonprofit WEX Foundation, launches its new cohort...
by Kat | Apr 23, 2022 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
4-23-2022 Students from across San Antonio are helping NASA prepare for future lunar habitats by exploring a cave system right here in Texas. In late March 2025, more than two dozen students entered the “Cave Without a Name” near Boerne, bringing robot...
by Kat | Jan 21, 2021 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
1-21-2021 The WEX Foundation, an educational nonprofit based at Port San Antonio in Texas, is advancing space careers by giving underserved middle and high school students hands-on experience in lunar exploration technologies. Founded by renowned space architect Sam...
by Kat | Sep 5, 2019 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
Our LCATS Students in San Antonio worked in teams to construct their rovers and the balloon payload over multiple weekends, using the Magnitude.io CanSat to collect telemetry data and visualize them in real-time. Activities included the Lunar Caves remote vehicle,...
by Kat | Jun 14, 2018 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
6-14-2018 In June 2018, thirty San Antonio middle school students gathered at Port San Antonio to launch a weather balloon carrying instruments to measure altitude, humidity, and pressure—soaring 100,000 feet into the stratosphere. The launch marked the completion of...
by Kat | Jul 20, 2016 | LCATS, News, WEX Foundation
7-20-2016 NASA awarded a $1.24 million grant to the WEX Foundation in San Antonio to support an educational and research initiative aimed at preparing for future human colonization of the Moon. The program, developed in partnership with the University of Texas at San...
