On the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder campus, a group of about 100 dedicated students are working hard in the Sounding Rocket Laboratory. Their goal: to send things into space.
Forty-five years ago, Vance Brand made history when he and his Apollo crew members met with Soviet cosmonauts in space, only to narrowly survive a near-fatal landing back on Earth.
The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences includes a bioastronautics lab, a payload operations center with a real-time communications link to the International Space Station and an indoor drone testing space.
Monday, Aug. 26 marked the first day of school for Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ students, and the opening of the university's new Aerospace Engineering Sciences Building.
The former NASA chief technologist and current Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ engineering dean discusses the moon, Mars and why we should think there's life on other planets.