Space
- Monday, Aug. 26 marked the first day of school for CU students, and the opening of the university's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building.
- Laurie Cantillo, NASA communicator and educator, is on a mission to get more people engaged in science — especially girls.
- CU scientists have been involved in learning about our neighbor in the solar system since at least the 1960s.
- The former NASA chief technologist and current CU engineering dean discusses the moon, Mars and why we should think there's life on other planets.
- Getting humans back to the moon is one thing. Jack Burns and other CU scientists are asking, "How can we stay?"
- Did you miss this year's super blood wolf moon? Don't worry, CU photographer Glenn Asakawa's got you covered.
- On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling CU Boulder’s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.
- Jim Voss has been to space five times. He can handle the Houston-to-Boulder commute.
- Alan Stern (PhD Astro’89) led NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. It was quite the journey.
- Humanity has always looked to the stars, but it hasn’t been until relatively recently that we have managed to travel into space. Carolyn Collins Petersen’s (Edu’78; MJour’96) book, titled "Space Explorations: Past, Present, Future," takes you there.