Paving a Road on the Moon
July 3, 2024
…teams selected from around the country as finalists in NASA’s Human Lander Challenge. The goal? To come up with the best solution to manage the lunar dust a spacecraft kicks up when landing on the Moon.
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Next Generation
September 26, 2022
UC San Diego alumna Deniz Burnham ‘07 reaches for the stars as a NASA astronaut candidate.
UC San Diego Researcher to Lead First-of-Its-Kind NASA Identical Twins Study
May 1, 2014
…Researcher to Lead First-of-Its-Kind NASA Identical Twins Study Brinda Rana Brinda Rana, a professor at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has been awarded NASA funding to study fluid flows in the brains of identical twin astronauts—one of whom will spend a year in space, while the other is…
NASA Competition Win Puts Engineering Undergrads Closer to Launching Satellite into Lunar Orbit
June 9, 2016
NASA Competition Win Puts Engineering Undergrads Closer to Launching Satellite into Lunar Orbit The Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) Cubesat Team at the University of California San Diego. A team of engineering undergraduates at UC San Diego is one step closer to sending a satellite into…
NASA Awards UC San Diego Orthopedist Distinguished Public Service Medal for Research
June 15, 2017
NASA Awards UC San Diego Orthopedist Distinguished Public Service Medal for Research on Astronaut Health and Performance Alan Hargens demonstrates an upright MRI that his team uses to study astronaut spine health. NASA has selected Alan Hargens, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the UC San Diego School of Medicine,…
Putting Earth Science Skills to Use…..on Mars
June 6, 2019
…of spare parts from NASA’s Curiosity Rover during her time as an intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. Putting Earth Science Skills to Use…..on Mars Hannah Munguia, a UC San Diego environmental engineering student with an earth science minor, had a revelation when she worked on the MARS 2020 Rover…
Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water on Mars Defies Expectations
August 18, 2022
…of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. Image from NASA’s InSight Mars lander. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian equator contains little or no ice. “We find that Mars’ crust…
Analysis of a “Rusty” Lunar Rock Suggests the Moon’s Interior Is Dry
August 21, 2017
…are pyroxene grains. (Photo: NASA/JSC) The moon is likely very dry in its interior according to a new study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, published August 21, 2017 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The question of the…
UC San Diego Goes Behind the Scenes of SpaceX Rocket Launch Aug. 14
August 10, 2017
…on to work at NASA, including 38 alumni who work at SpaceX. This is the campus where Sally Ride—the first American woman in space—taught physics and where, just recently, scientists contributed to the discovery of the first-known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star. This rich tradition of…
Experimenting in Space to Help Prevent Mudslides Here on Earth
November 19, 2020
…ISS via SpaceX and NASA to study mudslides in micro gravity. Back here on Earth, structural engineer Ingrid Tomac and her team at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego will conduct under Earth’s gravity the same experiments that are happening in space in microgravity. “Gravity plays a…
