Fiske Planetarium with Apollo 11 poster in foreground

CU Boulder celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary, and beyond

July 19, 2019

From 9News: At the Fiske Planetarium in Boulder, there are more than 75 shows this month to celebrate 50 years since the first manned lunar mission. Watch the video.

CU Students work on telerobotics

Students in Focus: How to control lunar robots from space

Jan. 30, 2018

From CU Boulder Today: Humans have already been to the moon—and will likely return—but engineering undergraduates Benjamin Mellinkoff and Matthew Spydell have their eyes set on an even bigger challenge: helping humans explore the entire solar system with the aid of robotic partners. Mellinkoff and Spydell work in a NASA-funded...

Far Side of the Moon LROC

Listening in on the early universe from the far side of the moon

March 27, 2017

From CU Boulder Today: A University of Colorado Boulder team has entered into a five-year, $3.5-million cooperative agreement with NASA to become part of a virtual institute to pursue the construction of astronomical observatories on the moon. The research team, led by Professor Jack Burns of the Department of Astrophysical...