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  • Sarah Gillis outside Fiske Planetarium
    Sarah Gillis (AeroEngr鈥17) is a lead space operations engineer and astronaut trainer at SpaceX with literal out of this world experience.The University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder alumna recently returned from a five day orbital mission aboard Polaris Dawn
  • Marsha Ivins
    Marsha Ivins (AeroEngr鈥73) is a retired astronaut who has participated in five missions to space. Over the course of her career, Ivins spent a total of 55 days in space handling various responsibilities, from monitoring systems as a flight engineer
  • Jason Reimuller (MAeroEngr鈥07, PhD鈥11)
    Jason Reimuller (MAeroEngr鈥07, PhD鈥11) didn鈥檛 necessarily set out to be a groundbreaker. He likes to say he 鈥渉erds the cats and tells the stories,鈥 but his activism is more than that. Reimuller is breaking barriers, both for astronauts and for
  • Preparing to engage the robot during the MDRS mission.
    Pawel Sawicki is exploring the barren landscape of Mars and testing out critical new technologies through a one-of-a-kind experience here on Earth. Welcome to the Mars Desert Research Station, an...
  • Aurora Borealis
    Abhi Doddi (PhDAeroEngr鈥21) is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica. Doddi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of 欧美口爆视频 Boulder, is leading a major study involving high-altitude balloons to improve weather forecasting on the Antarctic continent.

  • Six attendees at the banquet.
    The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences has honored nine alumni for outstanding contributions to industry, for technical achievement, and public service. The 2024 AeroBuffs Club Alumni Academy inductees were recognized during a...
  • The Aerospace Building
    The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is honoring nine alumni for outstanding contributions to industry, for technical achievement, and public service. The 2024 AeroBuffs Club Alumni Academy inductees are being
  • Michael J. Frazier (center) with his PhD advisor Mahmoud Hussein (right) and his PhD advisee Jack Pechac at the ASME IMECE 2023 conference.
    Michael J. Frazier (AeroEngr MS鈥11, PhD鈥15) discovered the dream engineering job he never knew he was looking for: university professor. In high school, as an undergraduate, and even as a master鈥檚 student, Frazier was sure an industry job was in his future, but a drive for more knowledge and research sent him down a different path...
  • Bradley Cheetham with the CAPSTONE satellite.
    The Front Range is a recognized hub for startups and technology firms; earlier this year, the 欧美口爆视频 system was honored as fifth in the nation for startup creation. With the state鈥檚 major aerospace presence, it is no surprise that many startups are aerospace-oriented.

    鈥淔rom our experiences doing research at...
  • Rendering of CAPSTONE orbiting the Moon.
    Bradley Cheetham with a model of the successful CAPSTONE satellite. Bradley Cheetham (MAeroEngr鈥11) and Dr. Jeff Parker (MAeroEngr鈥03, PhD鈥07) saw potential for sustainable exploration of space that they've turned into
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