Archive for: NASA

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  Engineering student receives $10,000 scholarship from astronaut

  Oct 6, 2012comments

  Retired NASA astronaut and CU alum Vance Brand visited his Alma mater to present student Sri Radha with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. Junior chemical and biological engineering major, Srinidhi Radhakrishnan,... read more »

   
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  Opinion: Looking Backward

  Aug 30, 2011comments

  The opinions represented in this article do not necessarily represent those of the staff of CUIndependent.com nor any of its sponsors. Imagine a grain of salt held at arm’s length against the blackest patch of night sky you can find. From... read more »

   

• CU-built biomedical payloads headed to space

  Feb 15, 2011comments

  When the space shuttle Discovery makes its final flight on Feb. 24, it will carry two biomedical payloads built by CU. According to a CU news release, one of the experiments will help astronauts understand bacteria virulence in space while the... read more »

   
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  CU to begin development on NASA mission to Mars

  Oct 6, 2010comments

  An artist's rendering of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, set to launch in 2013. CU's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physic will lead the mission. (Illustration courtsey NASA.gov) NASA is giving the greenlight... read more »

   

• Obama’s plans for privatizing space fall flat

  Oct 4, 2010comments

  The opinions represented in this article do not necessarily represent those of the staff of CUIndependent.com nor any of its sponsors. Space exploration is being postponed indefinitely by the new direction of the U.S. space program. Late last... read more »