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Alumna Aisha Bowe Ready to Launch on Historic All-Women Space Flight

Posted on April 9, 2025 (April 30, 2025) by U-M Space Institute

Aisha Bowe, an alumna from Michigan Aerospace, is set to board the first-ever all-women Blue Origin flight, scheduled to launch on April 14, 2025. This historic flight will be Blue Origin’s 11th human space mission that will cross the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space, 62 miles (100 km) above Earth.

“NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada Discusses Space Station Mission in UM Talk”

Posted on October 7, 2023 (February 22, 2024) by U-M Space Institute

NASA Astronaut Josh A. Cassada visited U-M as part of the University of Michigan Physics Department’s Saturday Morning Physics series and was featured in an article on Fox2Detroit.com titled “NASA Astronaut Josh Cassada Discusses Space Station Mission in UM Talk.” | October 2023.

The Astronaut’s Doctor: Michigan Alumna Realizes Her Dream at NASA

Posted on February 13, 2017 (July 25, 2024) by U-M Space Institute

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 »