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These news releases reflect some of highlights of the university's recent accomplishments in space research, exploration and education:

CU Space Science News

NASA Selects CU-Boulder for $6 Million Dust Detector to Orbit Moon

CU-Boulder Students Set for National Nanosatellite Competition

Upper Atmosphere Breathing Cycles Linked to Solar Wind

CU-Boulder Spider Becomes Media Hit on Space Station

CU-Boulder to Launch Butterfly, Spider Experiments on Space Shuttle

CU-Boulder Selected for Two Lunar NASA Grants Totaling $11 Million

CU and SpaceDev Announce Launch of eSpace Entrepreneurship Effort

Peculiar Ring-Arcs Around Neptune Explained by CU-Boulder Professor

CU Students Win First Place in Nanosatellite Competition

CU-Boulder Alum Steve Swanson Set for February Shuttle Flight

CASA Awarded $2 Million for NASA Sounding Rocket Program

Cosmic Origins Spectrograph to Probe 'Fossil Record' of Gases

NASA Selects CU-Boulder for $485 Million Mars Mission

Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Set for Launch

CU-Boulder Students Launch Rocket Payloads

CU Returns $3 Million in Cost Savings for NASA Mission

CU Awarded $32 Million from NASA to Manage Snow and Ice Climate Archive

CU Signs Agreement with NASA for Experiments on All Remaining Shuttle Missions

Hubble Survey Finds Missing Matter, Probes Intergalactic Web

CU to Build $34 Million Instrument Package for U.S. Environmental Satellite

CU Scientists, Student Launch Sounding Rocket

Alumnus, Two Payloads Head for Space Station

NASA Selects Two Space Projects for Further Study

MESSENGER Spacecraft With CU Instrument to Fly by Mercury

Saturn's Rings May be Old as Solar System

Supercomputer Simulation May Help in Search for Missing Matter

CU Satellite Indicates Regional Warming During Solar Cycle

International Team Finds Source of Cosmic Rays

CU Astronaut-Alum Scott Carpenter Presents Scholarship to Student

New Study Confirms First Belt of Moonlets in Saturn's Rings

CU Signs $92 Million Contract with NASA, NOAA for Space Weather Package

AIM Mission Controlled by CU to Study Night Shining Clouds

CU-Boulder to Partner with Caltech, Cornell on $100 Million Telescope in Chile

Sun-Like Star Caught in Early Stage of Development

CU-Boulder Proposal One of Two Finalists for MAVEN Mission to Mars

$70 Million CU Instrument Set for Insertion on Hubble in 2008

Earth-Like Planets May be More Common Than Once Thought

Orbiting Space Shield Designed at CU Could Help Image Earth-Like Planets

CU Student-Built Dust Counter on Pluto Mission Already Past Mars


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