There are 109 astronauts inducted into the Hall of Fame, and nearly 15 are women. Since its inception, NASA has selected 360 astronauts including 299 men and 61 women.. Ivins was selected in the ...

‘Zak Crawley is the luckiest England cricketer ever,’ says Michael Vaughan ...

CU Boulder students Alexandra “Sasha” Gladkova and Maya Palmer have each been awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).. The merit-based ASF scholarship is the ...

Former NASA Astronaut Bob Cabana, now an associate administrator at NASA, visited CU Boulder on Wednesday to speak to students about the Artemis program and plans for future space exploration.

From Training Astronauts to Becoming One. Gillis first gained interest in space as a high school student at Boulder’s Shining Mountain Waldorf School, where she attended a CU Boulder space for ...

Born in Boulder on May 1, 1925. Bachelor of science in aeronautical engineering from CU, 1949. Flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. John M. Grunsfeld A veteran of four ...

At CU, we are working to meet the health needs of astronauts who may eventually be living on other planets through our Masters in Aerospace Engineering Sciences Program, ensuring the next generation ...

The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a nondescript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as ...

Two CU-Boulder astronaut-alumni died aboard space shuttles. In 1986, Ellison Onizuka (B.S., M.S. aerospace engineering, 1969), was killed when Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, ...

A refrigerator from CU Boulder could change the future of astronaut food Refrigerators in space have only been used as incubators for science experiments, until now. To stream 9NEWS on your phone ...

In 1998, he was officially selected as an astronaut. On Feb. 7, 2008, he flew his first mission into space on the Space Shuttle Atlantis as part of the STS-122 mission.

Apr. 19—As former NASA astronaut Bob Cabana describes it, the ultimate goal of future space exploration is to get to Mars. Cabana, now an associate administrator at NASA, visited CU Boulder on ...