LASP employs student 鈥渃ommand controllers鈥 to help operate the space missions under its supervision. 鈥淟ASP is the only place in the world that has students work on spacecraft like this,鈥 says Reidar Larsen, a graduate student who started working at LASP as an undergraduate at CU Boulder. 鈥淚t鈥檚 completely unique.鈥