Soaring student receives Provost’s Award for outstanding achievement
When Natalie Gramer pilots a plane, the world below recedes. “It just makes sense,” she said. “You look out over…
Category: Aviation and Aerospace
Outer space is full of our junk. Here’s what we should do about it
Roughly 25,000 pieces of space junk, including obsolete satellites, rocket parts and other debris, are currently orbiting Earth. Despite the…
United, MSU Denver join forces to tackle pilot shortage
Metropolitan State University of Denver is partnering with Aviate, United Airline’s pilot career-development program, to combat the nation’s pilot shortage…
Justin Darnall wants to get humans back to the moon — and beyond
More than 50 years ago, the astronauts of the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission became the last humans to set…
A new way to light up the sky
A giant eyeball appears in the sky. Pac-Man eats a cherry, and the iconic Hollywood sign flashes over palm trees….
The initiative that’s helping change the face of aerospace
For the majority of the aerospace industry’s existence, its workforce has been a fairly homogenous landscape. According to the 2021…
Q&A: The Artemis space program
Update: NASA has launched the uncrewed Orion spacecraft as part of the Artemis I mission, the first integrated test of…
Air travel is a mess. Here’s why.
Like many industries, airlines are experiencing staff shortages. But unlike other industries that can hire new employees and get them…
The future of spaceflight
Jeff Kloska’s career path looks a lot like the trajectory of a jet: gaining momentum down the runway, then lifting…
Eye (in the sky) on Ukraine
Retired Air Force Col. Jose Lopez, a senior lecturer in the Aviation and Aerospace Department at Metropolitan State University of…