Space
- Elizabeth Frank (PhDGeol’14) is helping pave the way for a new era of space exploration and commerce as the chief scientist at Interlune, a Seattle-based startup aiming to become the first private company to harvest the Moon’s natural resources.
- CU’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is the university’s first and highest-budget research institute. Here are just a few of the many missions LASP has helped propel forward.
- Marsha Ivins (AeroEngr’73) is a retired astronaut who has participated in five missions to space. This year, she was selected as a 2024 inductee for the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors in the industry.
- Solar eclipse, benefits of yoga, historical research on tea and more.
- CU researchers have been involved with the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which launched in 2016 and landed in September.
- Astronaut Jim Voss shares what he uses his phone for most.
- Space environmentalist Moriba Jah is on a mission to manage space debris.
- Astrodynamicist and space environmentalist Moriba Jah is among the prestigious 25-member cohort of the 2022 MacArthur Fellows Program.
- Much of the world was awestruck when NASA published the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope.
- Very few official UFO studies have been conducted, but CU Boulder boasts one of these rare reports.