Posts tagged with space

Last Updated: Jun. 12, 2018 · 7:42 p.m.

A view of the Great Plains cities, labeled as including "Denver," from the International Space Station in 2011. (ISS/NASA)

Astronaut films the fastest California to Denver flight you’ve ever seen

A portrait of Fran Banegal. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Vote for Denverite’s next Readers’ Choice story

Every week, Denverite’s Readers’ Choice series delves into topics selected by the public.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 51 crewmembers Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and Jack Fischer of NASA (right) field questions from reporters in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mockup March 31 during the second of two days of final qualification exams. Yurchikhin and Fischer will launch April 20 on the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four and a half month mission on the International Space Station. Expedition 51. (Rob Navias/NASA)

OPINION: You are not sufficiently awed by the process of shooting a man from Colorado into space

This is going to be Colorado native Col. Jack D. Fischer's first time in space. Please clap.

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A 200-pound person can stand on this tiny 3D-printed titanium sphere and it won't break. Lockheed Martin media day, April 3, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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LOOK: Manned flight to Mars, a much more accurate GPS and other glimpses of the future from Lockheed Martin

At Lockheed Martin's media day, we got to gawk at four areas of work that might help lead mankind into a Jetsons-like future. Here's what we saw.

Denver at night from space. Full size available for free. (International Space Station/NASA/Public Domain)

Colorado from space: Astronauts’ shots of Denver and the Front Range over the years

Let's take a look at Colorado from space with these awesome astronaut-taken photos.

Michael Byram and Ann Smead donated generously to support Colorado aerospace. (Courtesy of CU Boulder)

CU Boulder’s aerospace engineering program gets $15 million and a new name

Watch ULA launch an upgraded military satellite into space Wednesday night

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers rotate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for testing. (NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis)

A ULA rocket is ready to do its part in NASA’s first-ever asteroid return mission

A United Launch Alliance-made rocket is good to go for a seven-year mission into space. The objective this time: collect ancient space rocks.

Grab the tissues and listen to Curiosity rover sing “Happy Birthday” to itself on Mars

Sun peeking over the International Space Station. (Courtesy of NASA)

Watch CU Boulder launch more technology into space

CU flexed its aerospace engineering muscles again as its high-tech hardware boarded the SpaceX Dragon capsule to the International Space Station Monday.

Engineers prepare to install the Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) propellent tank at Lockheed Martin in Denver. (Courtesy of Lockheed Martin/Flickr)

Lockheed Martin selected by NASA for more Mars mission research

A model of the Juno spacecraft. (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani/Flickr)

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CU-Boulder has worked around every planet in the solar system, and Pluto

CU-Boulder claims to be the only research institute in the world to produce scientific instruments that have visited all eight planets, and Pluto.

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