History

In October 1976, R. Gilbert Moore attended a conference where NASA administrators announced the development of a new opportunity for space research aboard the newly-designed space shuttle. The new program, titled Get Away Special (GAS), would allow universities, non-profits, and other organizations to send their experiments to space for an affordable price. Moore was so enthused with the educational possibilities of this program that he stood up in the middle of the presenter’s speech and wrote a check for the first Get Away Special (GAS) payload reservation.  He then donated the payload reservation to Utah State University, beginning the USU GAS program.

Through this program Utah State has sent 11 payloads into space