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Launching the World’s Largest Space Telescope

Posted on November 12, 2025 (February 5, 2026) by U-M Space Institute
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The James Webb Space Telescope is safe from the sun’s light and heat thanks, in part, to Robby Swoish. The largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space, Webb is designed to study galaxies so far away that their light takes 13.5 billion years to reach us. That ancient light gives us a view of our universe that dates back to the origins of the very first stars.

“It Happened at Michigan: U-M Alum Was First American to Walk in Space”

Posted on June 23, 2025 (July 16, 2025) by U-M Space Institute

In an article for The University Record, Edward H. White II, a 1959 graduate of the University of Michigan, was featured about being the first American to walk in space. His story was featured in the article “It Happened at Michigan: U-M Alum was First American to Walk in Space.” | June 23,

Researchers Lead Science, Discovery and Engineering Forward at AGU23

Posted on January 4, 2024 (February 28, 2024) by U-M Space Institute
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Many faculty, research scientists and students from the U-M Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering attended the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2023.

“NASA Engineer Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Innovators”

Posted on December 20, 2023 (February 22, 2024) by U-M Space Institute

Clare Luckey, a 2017 alumna of the University of Michigan Department of Climate & Space, has been named to Forbes’ 30 under 30 in the Class of 2024, in the category of science. She was featured in the article “NASA Engineer Named in Forbes 30 Under 30 List of Innovators.” | December

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.

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