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U-M Alumnae Aisha Bowe Goes to Space

Posted on November 4, 2022 (October 17, 2023) by U-M Space Institute

Aisha Bowe will make history when she boards an upcoming Blue Origin flight that will cross the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space. She will be the first female U-M alum and sixth Black woman to do so.

U-M BLiSS Teams Win Two NASA Projects

Posted on September 21, 2022 (July 25, 2024) by Melissa F. Priebe

Expanding the potential ways humans can operate in space, NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected two University of Michigan student teams to develop advanced and innovative design ideas that could solve Artemis mission challenges.

U-M Student Group CLAWS Develops Tools to Help Astronauts Navigate Space

Posted on June 6, 2022 (July 25, 2024) by U-M Space Institute

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

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 »