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New spacesuit, new inspiration for students & faculty in Smead Aerospace

From CBS 4 Denver: It’s been a historic week for NASA, first with the unveiling of the new American spacesuit to be used in the next mission to the moon, then with the rescheduling of the first-ever all female spacewalk that had been previously postponed because an issue with the...

Building a satellite swarm to investigate an atmospheric anomaly

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Seminar - Keeping the Crew Alive & Healthy: Ionic Liquids for Atmosphere Revitalization and In Situ Resource Utilization - Oct. 16

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CU Boulder is the place for aerospace. Our students and faculty are pushing the limits of aeronautics and astronautics research, designing next generation unmanned aircraft, expanding the possibilities of remote sensing, and building space instruments and satellites for orbit around Earth and beyond.

We are home to 56-tenure track, research, and instructional faculty, over 400 graduate students and 1,000 undergraduates.

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A new place for aerospace

We have opened a dedicated, approximately 180,000-square-foot aerospace engineering building to provide world-class learning and research space. Work wrapped up over the summer and a formal ribbon cutting was held August 26, 2019.

Colorado is a hub of our nation's aerospace industry, and this facility further positions CU Boulder at the center of the innovation ecosystem.

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Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

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