NASA Deputy Administrator and former Space Shuttle Astronaut, Pam Melroy, visited the Center for Space Resources, toured its laboratories, and met with faculty of the Space Resources program. After the visit, the Deputy Administrator posted on Twitter: “Thank...
Prof. Chris Dreyer from the Space Resources Program was recently awarded a $2 million grant as Principal Investigator over two years to develop tools and methods for autonomous landing pad construction on the Moon’s surface. The ASPECT project, funded under the...
Prof. George Sowers of the Space Resources program was recently appointed by NASA’s Administrator, Bill Nelson to the NASA Advisory Council, in the Committee on Human Exploration and Space Operations. This Committee supports the advisory needs of the NASA...
Angel Abbud-Madrid, Director of the Space Resources program, along with graduate students Curtis Purrington, Ben Thrift, Timofey Broslav, and David Purcell, and undergraduate student Parmida Mahdavi were featured in an in-depth story by the Christian Science Monitor...
Blue Origin and Sierra Space announced plans for Orbital Reef, a commercially developed, owned, and operated space station to be built in low Earth orbit. The station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and development by facilitating the growth of a...
The Mines Center for Space Resources hosted an event and technical demonstration on October 19th with four international companies focused on how space debris can be turned into useful propellant in space. In the “Trash to Treasure” event, Astroscale...
