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CU Boulder celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary, and beyond

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 02:18:49 +0000

CU Boulder celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary, and beyond Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 07/19/2019 - 20:18

Gary Shapiro

From 9News: At the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, there are more than 75 shows this month to celebrate 50 years since the first manned lunar mission. Watch the video.

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Students in Focus: How to control lunar robots from space

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:39:12 +0000

Students in Focus: How to control lunar robots from space Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 01/30/2018 - 12:39

Kenna Bruner

From CU Boulder Today: Humans have already been to the moon—and will likely return—but engineering undergraduates Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell have their eyes set on an even bigger challenge: helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners. Mellinkoff and Spydell work in a NASA-funded telerobotics lab at CU Boulder with a focus on using telerobotics to someday explore the solar system. Since humans are going back to the moon, researchers are transitioning into an era of space exploration that features a human-robotic partnership. Read more...

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Listening in on the early universe from the far side of the moon

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:00:00 +0000

Listening in on the early universe from the far side of the moon Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/27/2017 - 12:00

Jim Scott

From CU Boulder Today: A University of babyֱ��app Boulder team has entered into a five-year, $3.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon.

The research team, led by Professor Jack Burns of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, is one of four new research groups named to join the existing nine that comprise NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI). SSERVI fosters collaborations with science and exploration communities, enabling cross-disciplinary partnerships with research institutes both domestic and abroad.

The research group, which will be known as the Network for Exploration and Space Science (NESS), will implement partnerships to advance scientific discovery and human exploration in the lunar environment. The team will conduct research in robotics, cosmology, astrophysics and the study of the sun.

“We are thrilled to be selected by NASA to participate in this new solar system exploration initiative. It was a highly competitive selection process,” Burns said. “CU Boulder has a long heritage with NASA, and our undergraduates and graduate students are involved in virtually all of the space research that we conduct on campus.” Read more...

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