In collaboration with NASA, CU students are heavily involved in real-time spacecraft control and helped discover the only known Earth-like planet to date earlier this year. By Matt Vail
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NASA probe wil investigate Mars water supply with the help of CU. By Gabe Larsen
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The instrument is able to chart the existence, size and individual velocities of tiny dust particles in the lunar atmosphere.
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Sri Radha is the honored recipient of a $10,000 scholarship from retired NASA astronaut Vance Brand.
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Imagine a grain of salt held at arm’s length against the blackest patch of night sky you can find.
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When the space shuttle Discovery makes its final flight on Feb. 24, it will carry two biomedical payloads built by CU.
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NASA is giving the greenlight for CU to enter the development stage of a $438 million mission that is set to launch in 2013. The mission is called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, and is going to be led by CU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and has been in the planning stages for sometime, according to the NASA website.
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OPINION – Space exploration is being postponed indefinitely by the new direction of the U.S. space program.