Jeff Zehnder
Erin Overcash (AeroEngr’14, MS’17) is an aerospace engineer, U.S. Navy pilot, and new NASA astronaut candidate. An alumna of the University of Colorado Boulder and a Kentucky native, Overcash was selected as one of 10
Diana Hernandez is performing research using data from a sun-orbiting space probe as an undergraduate sophomore. It is an impressive job for a student who only recently completed her first thermodynamics course.
A crew of astronauts wearing spacesuits look out across the reddish horizon, the rock formations unfamiliar, with no trails to guide them and incomplete maps. They are lost, once again, on Mars...
Robert Lightfoot is the President of Lockheed Martin Space and a longtime leader in the aerospace field. He spoke to Smead Aerospace students at CU Boulder on...
Ulubilge Ulusoy is advancing the science of artificial intelligence to help astronauts on future missions to Mars. Although such a flight is years away, AI systems will be critical to assisting astronauts as they journey
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have been shaping space exploration for decades and now are expanding into space law. As more nations launch satellites, space probes, and military hardware into orbit, policy has
The 12-foot-tall rocket roared off the pad, streaming higher and higher until it was barely more than a pinprick in the morning sky. At 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, October 12, the...
Brian Breitsch is improving our understanding of the upper atmosphere in some of the most isolated places on Earth. A research associate in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Breitsch is
Hanspeter Schaub has been officially inducted into the National Academy of Engineering. A distinguished professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, Schaub was welcomed as a...
I wanted to see what I’m made of when you take all of the support systems away and there’s no redundancies like a spacecraft. It’s just me, single failure mode." Steven Ramm (AeroEngr’13) is a Lockheed