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Kristyn Sample struggled to find her place after high school. The Columbia, Missouri native was getting by working waitressing jobs around Kansas City, but knew she wanted more.Now 27, Sample has graduated from the University of
Did you know experiments on the International Space Station are being done to help the rest of us that will never venture off planet Earth? NASA award-winning engineer Shankini Doraisingam (AeroEngr’98) will give you an insider’s look at the
NASA is turning to university students for help with the next big space technology – augmented reality. The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ has been selected by NASA as one of 16 colleges to participate in the Spacesuit User Interface Technologies
Mass media representations of space weather—variable conditions in space that can affect the technological systems modern society depends on—often evoke visions of catastrophic power grid failures and global chaos. The result can be gripping film or
Daniel Scheeres is a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor, the A. Richard Seebass Chair of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. His research spans astrodynamics and spacecraft navigation
Antarctica is one of Earth’s most forbidding places. That’s why CU researchers keep going back. Ian Geraghty (AeroEngr’18) spent his first season in Antarctica in 2017. Now a research assistant at CU, he’s part of an
Bacteria will be soon be under the microscope in outer space as four new CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ-led biological experiments are set to begin aboard the International Space Station. The research projects, which are supported by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s BioServe Space
The National Geographic channel is spotlighting the red planet in the television series ‘MARS’ and enlisting the help of experts from the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. Robert Braun is the Dean of the school’s college of engineering, a
The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ student group the Colorado ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Rocketry Association (COBRA) successfully launched its Copperhead rocket to an altitude of 14,583 feet Sunday at 10:50 a.m. MST. The rocket, weighing in at 55.8 pounds, lifted off
The pattern of uneven sea level rise over the last quarter century has been driven in part by human-caused climate change, not just natural variability, according to a new study. The findings suggest that regions of the world where seas have risen