In an article for BecauseOfThemWeCan.com, Aisha Bowe, a U-M Climate & Space alumna, talks about her announcement that she will be part of Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission, making history as one of six women flying together on the 11th human spaceflight of New Shepard. She was featured in the article “Former NASA Rocket Scientist Continue Reading »
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“Awaiting their Return from Space”
Dr. Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, an assistant research scientist at U-M Climate and Space, discussed the challenges of a “space rescue” for stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, as well as the risks involved with the Boeing Crew Flight Test in the episode “Awaiting their Return from Space” published on The Continue Reading »
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 »