New Course Offered on Supporting Human Spaceflights
A fascinating new course on Supporting Human Spaceflights is now available to students in the University of Michigan College of Engineering.
Category: University of Michigan Space Institute
U-M Student Group CLAWS Develops Tools to Help Astronauts Navigate Space
The University of Michigan Collaborative Lab for Advancing Work in Space (CLAWS), a multidisciplinary student group that designs and develops innovative applications for human space exploration, participated in the NASA SUITS Challenge this May at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The focus of this challenge was to develop an augmented reality (AR) system to Continue Reading »
The Astronaut’s Doctor: Michigan Alumna Realizes Her Dream at NASA
Natacha Chough (M.D. 2010) spent her childhood looking at the sky. There was something so inviting, so challenging about the immensity of space — and our place within it. She decided early on that she wanted to work at NASA.
During an undergraduate internship at NASA in 2000, Chough learned about aerospace medicine, a specialty Continue Reading »