Top Stories of the Year

Top stories of the year

Technological Leadership program celebrates its first graduate

“The classes are a lot smaller, it feels a lot more personal, and in a way you kind of get to choose what you want to learn. That’s something I’ve really valued and appreciated. It’s made me feel a lot more passionate about being curious and asking questions.” -Parker Cohensitt, first TL graduate

Student “Lifeguards” in the Interplanetary Lab assist in NASA mission

“As a young engineer, it’s hard to get opportunities to be part of a demonstration flight. It’s very rare that you get to do that, let alone run the project as students, so it was a lot of experience that I couldn’t get anywhere else.” -Matthew Adkins, Interplanetary Initiative Lab

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Interplanetary Initiative welcomes its first Fellow

“There are many backgrounds and disciplines that come together, bringing together experts from different fields and asking the important questions. Questions like, ‘What does new space look like?’ New actors are emerging and developing countries have more capabilities than ever in space.” -Theodora Ogden, Interplanetary Fellow

Orbital Reef University Advisory Council advances planning for research on low Earth orbit space station

“We get the chance to create the environment that will enable the research that we’re going to be conducting over the coming years, so we’re actually putting the pillars in place to enable us to do both exciting research and inclusive research and ethical research.” -Simon Jackman, Orbital Reef Advisory Council member

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Top Stories of the Year