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Set to launch on Dec. 18, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will allow scientists to investigate the universe in the infrared, a band of light invisible to the human eye.

In infrared: Oct. 15 lecture to cover Webb Space Telescope

October 11, 2021

Karen Stelling is a professor of practice in mechanical and materials engineering. She is the adviser of the Aerospace Club, which is working on a satellite project with NASA, through a student grant project. She poses in the lobby of Othmer Hall with a display of Nebraska Engineering aerospace engineering projects.

Professor pivoted from private sector to teaching tomorrow's leaders

May 25, 2021

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Detweiler, Houston contribute to new NASA project

April 21, 2020

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Information from the NASA GRACE-FO satellites is being used to produce and share first-of-their-kind global maps of topsoil, root zone soil and groundwater moisture, as well as 30-, 60- and 90-day forecasts of wet and dry conditions across the continental United States, thanks to a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies and National Drought Mitigation Center.

Drought center, CALMIT help launch drought-monitoring, forecast tools

April 2, 2020

'Nebraska space bread' helped launch food science program

July 18, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

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Christine Darden

'Hidden Figures' mathematician to speak during MLK Week

January 14, 2019

Mike Cox and Elizabeth Balerud watch as a lightweight boom and mock solar panel deploy from a space tool they helped build.

NASA to test Husker-designed space boom

October 16, 2017

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Aerial image of the approaching eclipse shadow captured by the Nebraska team that launched high altitude balloons to study the Aug. 21 event.

Project successfully takes to the sky to collect eclipse data

August 24, 2017

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Nebraska's Michael Sibbernsen and students from Metropolitan Community College prepare a high-altitude balloon for launch on June 24. The launch was a test run for a NASA-funded project for the solar eclipse on Aug. 21.

Project takes to the sky for eclipse study

July 5, 2017

Agriculture & Environment

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Shane Farritor and Clayton Anderson

Former astronaut Anderson tests profs' surgery robot

May 25, 2017

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Alexandra Dominguez and her husband, Dave, stand in front of a booster rocket at the Orbital ATK test facility in Promontory, Utah. The Dominguezes attended a ground test of the Space Launch System’s five-segment solid rocket motor on June 28, 2016.

Husker alumna contributes to NASA's next-generation rocket

May 4, 2017

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Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for June 17

June 17, 2016