November 22, 2022
November 22, 2022 —
The UC San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute leads its first space launch, sending stem cells into space aboard the International Space Station. The NASA-partnered study will take advantage of the microgravity environment of space to study accelerated aging in stem cells.
May 21, 2015
May 21, 2015 —
…than 1,000 parts for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, a vehicle designed to carry astronauts to destinations in deep space, including an asteroid and Mars. On Dec. 5, Orion launched atop a Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex for a two-orbit, four-hour test flight. San Diego…
April 18, 2023
April 18, 2023 —
An Olympic Gold Medalist, a MacArthur Fellow and the first woman to serve as director of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory will lead an inspiring discussion that challenges the status quo at the fifth annual Women in Leadership.
April 27, 2017
April 27, 2017 —
…the University of California San Diego and funded by NASA.
February 18, 2021
February 18, 2021 —
…noticed an article saying NASA was looking for new astronauts, and for the first time, women could apply. Sally realized in that instant that she wanted to fly in space. She immediately dashed off a letter to NASA asking for an application for the astronaut corps. Her sister is a…
August 31, 2017
August 31, 2017 —
…California San Diego physicist Adam Burgasser, have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The results suggest that the outer planets of the system might still harbor substantial amounts of water—enough to increase…
June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015 —
…is also sponsored by NASA’s Marshal Flight Space Center, which helped to finance the fabrication of the test stand. Behind NASA, SEDS UCSD has a whole host of sponsors such as Lockheed Martin, XCOR, The Gordon Center, Gantner Instruments, and many more. The test The students had been at FAR…
April 15, 2021
April 15, 2021 —
NASA astronaut and UC San Diego alumna Megan McArthur is about to embark on a six-month mission to the International Space Station. While a graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, McArthur studied underwater ocean acoustics and conducted sea-going research that helped prepare her for the challenges of space. Photo…
December 21, 2021
December 21, 2021 —
Researchers at the University of California San Diego launched blood stem cells into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study stress-induced aging and how stem cells and their progeny transform into pre-cancer and cancer stem cells associated with leukemia and other blood cancers.
February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017 —
Illustration by NASA/JPL-CALTECH UC San Diego Astrophysicists Contribute to Major Planet Discovery The announcement yesterday that NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope had revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star may be the biggest news of the year for the space agency. But it wasn’t only…