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CU Boulder’s Alumni Awards are recognizing Vanessa Aponte (PhDAeroEngr’06) as the 2021 recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Award. Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson shared stories from his life and career during a special webinar with the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences. Tyson took part in a discussion hosted by Entrepreneur-in-
Students at Windsor High School in northern Colorado were given the opportunity to combine rocket science with studying altitudes and velocities. Matt Rhode, Smead Aerospace mechanical design & manufacturing lab manager met with a group of high
It is one of the coldest and most isolated places on Earth, but for a team of scientists and engineers from CU Boulder, it is the ideal location to conduct complex space-atmospheric research: the frozen tundra of Antarctica.
A CU Boulder team has taken home third place and $500,000 in prize money in an international competition that sends teams of robots deep underground to conduct search-and-rescue operations. The CU Boulder group, made up of engineers from across the
Xinlin Li, a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder, has been elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical
A special 1/3 scale GPS IIIF satellite mockup built by Lockheed Martin has been dedicated in the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder Aerospace Building. CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin officials held a ceremony Friday, Sept. 24 to mark the installation of the satellite, which is...
Imagine living in a city in the distant (or maybe not-so-distant) future: You need to make an appointment across town, so you step into a pod in an underground tunnel. From there, you’re whizzed at breakneck speeds through a series of twisting and
Vanessa Aponte’s career is out of this world — quite literally. A systems engineer focused on human spaceflight and landing systems, she has spent the past two decades pursuing humanity’s final frontier. Originally from Puerto Rico, Aponte first
Lindsay Kirk (AeroEngr’08) fully realizes her day job at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as part of the Commercial Crew Program is a special one. It’s a high-profile post that has her working closely with Boeing and SpaceX, overseeing their aerothermal