Summary: <a href="http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Burns_moon.jpg"></a><br> Since the late 1940s, the University of Colorado Boulder has sent important experiments and instruments to every planet in our solar system. In 50+ space missions, NASA spacecraft have launched hundreds of instruments from CU Boulder as well as 20 CU scientists, faculty and alumni – including 18 from Boulder, one from UCCS and one from CU Anschutz. CU Boulder Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Professor <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/burns/">Jack Burns</a> continues to have longstanding ties with <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a> that benefit the department and CU as a leading-edge institution.<br> <a href="http://cuontheair.blubrry.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Burns_ken.jpg"></a><br> <br> * The University of Colorado is a powerhouse in terms of aerospace. How it began and where we are now.<br> * CU in space: More than 300 CU students are majoring in astronomy and astrophysics. The next largest program in the U.S. is less than half of that size.<br> * CU’s impact on past missions and its potential looking ahead.<br> * Moving ahead to the moon, vs. going back to the moon.<br> * Investigating the deployment of low frequency radio antennas in the lunar/cis-lunar environment using surface telerobotics, to take cosmological measurements of exotic physics.<br> * SpaceX – what does it mean for space exploration to privatize missions?<br> * Colonizing the moon? It could happen!<br> * Then maybe Mars, then maybe one of the moons of Jupiter, Europa.<br> * One hundred years from now.<br> * Increasing the efficiency of propulsion.<br> * Star Trek beaming up? Maybe not.<br> * How right now is the cornerstone of sustaining space exploration and colonization.<br> <br> Resources:<br> <br> * <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/aps/">CU Boulder Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences</a><br> * <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/alumni/heritage-center/exhibitions/cu-space">CU in Space</a><br> * <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/">NASA</a><br> * <a href="https://www.spacex.com/">SpaceX</a><br> <br>
