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On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took their first steps on the moon. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that landmark event, CU Boulder is highlighting the stories of scientists and engineers from across the university who contributed to the first five decades of human space...

Dr. Dan Scheeres was in Japan waiting for an important announcement that took an extra day to come. He found out his plan to study binary asteroids was allowed to proceed by NASA. “We want to send two small spacecraft so we can also see what the temperature of the...

Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian , imaginary craft that generate their own gravity by spinning around in space. Now, a team from CU Boulder is working to make those out-there technologies...

A first-of-its-kind camera developed in partnership between CU Boulder and Ball Aerospace will soon be landing on the moon. NASA announced today that it has selected the scientific instrument, called the Lunar Compact Infrared Imaging System (L-CIRiS), for its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. The camera will ride along with...

Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring in one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever.

A new collaborative course between CU Anschutz and Smead Aerospace called "Medicine in Space and Surface Environments" recently concluded their time in the field in the southern Utah desert. Smead Aerospace assistant professor, Allie Anderson , and CU Anschutz assistant professor, Ben Easter , co-led the three-week class. Their time...

In just three years, a new space mission led by CU Boulder could examine some of the solar system’s most dynamic duos: binary asteroids. NASA announced this week that the Janus: Reconnaissance Missions to Binary Asteroids mission had been selected as a finalist in the space agency’s new small satellite...

Download the Lecture slides Congratulations to professor Xinzhao Chu for being selected to give the 2019 CEDAR Prize Lecture. Chu received the honor for her scientific contributions to understanding coupling from the stratosphere to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere resulting from Lidar development and observations at McMurdo Station in Antarctica...

What would your life be like without the benefits that space and years of research affords us? It’s a question that Daniel Baker frequently asks in his role as director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). Imagine a world without cell phones or...

The Center for Aerospace Structures within the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is now the Aerospace Mechanics Research Center (AMReC). The name change reflects growth in its mission. "Over the last 10 years several faculty members with research interests in the areas of fluids and materials have...