Space

  • Ellison's Ball
    On the third floor of Old Main, encased in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling Boulder’s distinguished history in space, there’s a football with “Colorado” pressed into the pigskin.
  • Portrait of Jim Voss in front of his airplanes
    Jim Voss has been to space five times. He can handle the Houston-to-Boulder commute.
  • Pluto
    Alan Stern (PhD Astro’89) led NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto. It was quite the journey.
  • Space Exploration
    Humanity has always looked to the stars, but it hasn’t been until relatively recently that we have managed to travel into space. Carolyn Collins Petersen’s (Edu’78; MJour’96) book, titled "Space Explorations: Past, Present, Future," takes you there.
  • New Horizons
    On July 14, 2015, more than 3 billion miles from Earth, a small NASA spacecraft called New Horizons screamed past Pluto at more than 32,000 miles per hour.
  • Pathways class
    Students in “Pathway to Space,” the gateway course for Boulder’s space minor, released 170 balloons in January.
  • 14er illustration
    A new way of measuring elevation in the U.S. will yield the most accurate results yet — but might cost Colorado a couple 14ers.
  • bike
    Boulder named happiest city, Cassini's dramatic end, a dance legend and new marijuana research.
  • Jill Seubert
    Jill Seubert had done everything possible to ensure their calculations and directions were correct.
  • cu aerospace
    Boulder’s aerospace engineers are preparing to lift off from central campus and land squarely in a burgeoning innovation hub on East Campus.
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