Space Lettuce

March 8, 2020 – Astronauts in space live on processed, pre-packaged space rations such as fruits, nuts, chocolate, shrimp cocktails, peanut butter, chicken, and beef to name a few. These have often been sterilized by heating, freeze drying, or irradiation to make them last and key a challenge for the US Space Agency NASA has been to figure out how to grow safe, fresh food onboard. Read More
First Official Names Given To Features On Asteroid Bennu

March 8, 2020 – Asteroid Bennu’s most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid’s southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder – which is so large that it was initially detected from Earth – is officially designated Benben Saxum after the primordial hill that first arose from the dark waters in an ancient Egyptian creation myth. Read More
Front Range Biosciences Launches Hemp And Coffee Tissue Culture Samples To Space

March 8, 2020 – Front Range Biosciences (FRB), an agricultural technology company focused on breeding and nursery production of new plant varieties and seeds for the hemp and coffee industries, has sent plant cultures to space to examine the effects of zero gravity on plant gene expression. In partnership with SpaceCells USA Inc. and BioServe Space Technologies at the University of Colorado Boulder, FRB’s coffee and hemp cell cultures will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) when SpaceX CRS-20 docks at the ISS Monday morning. Read More
Lunar Lasers And Cosmic Crops: NASA Funds UArizona Space Exploration Missions

March 7, 2020 – Many things change for astronauts when they leave Earth and head into space, but at least one remains the same: They need food and water. NASA recently awarded funding to two University of Arizona teams to search for water and grow food in space. Read More
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site Nightingale

Credits: University of Arizona
March 7, 2020 – NASA’s first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. On March 3, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft executed a very low pass over sample site Nightingale, taking observations from an altitude of 820 feet (250 m), which is the closest that OSIRIS-REx has flown over the asteroid so far. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu’s northern hemisphere. Read More
Artemis I’s Orion Capsule Completes Testing

March 6, 2020 – NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a critical part of the Artemis I mission, has completed three months of testing at the agency’s Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. During the testing, the craft was subjected to the extreme temperatures and electromagnetic environment it will experience in its upcoming test mission to the Moon. Read More
Two Colorado Teams Among StellarXplorers Top 10 National Finalists
March 6, 2020 – Rangeview High School #2 in Aurora, Colorado, and the School of Engineering & Biomedical Science at Pueblo County High School in Pueblo, Colorado, are among the top 10 teams invited to the StellarXplorers VI National Finals Competition, to be held April 20-22, 2020. These top 10 teams advanced through four competitive qualification rounds, and represent schools and other youth groups from California, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Oregon. Read More
World View Shifts Focus To Become High-Value Data And Information Services Provider

March 3, 2020 – World View plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer. Tom Pirrone, Senior VP, Business Development made the announcement today at the Next-Generation Suborbital Research Conference in Broomfield, Colorado. Read More
NOAA’s DSCOVR Satellite Is Operating Again

March 2, 2020 – NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite, which had been offline for about nine months due to a technical glitch, is fully operational again, agency experts said today. Read More
NASA Seeks Applicants To Explore Moon, Mars

March 2, 2020 – For the first time in more than four years, NASA began accepting applications Monday for future astronauts. Aspiring Moon to Mars explorers have until 11:59 p.m. EDT (9:59 p.m. MDT) Tuesday, March 31, to apply. Read More
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Source: Colorado School of Mines
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