Artist illustration of NASA's Orion Spacecraft is slated to carry the first humans to leave Earth's orbit in more than 50 years. Credit NASA

Not your grandparents’ Apollo: Planetarium film captures NASA’s new moon missions

Feb. 16, 2022

From CU Boulder Today: The Fiske Planetarium at CU Boulder is headed Forward! To the Moon. This Friday, the planetarium will host the public premier of a new science film—a 30-minute adventure into the Artemis Program, NASA’s campaign to send human and robotic astronauts to the surface of the moon...

NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s south pole looking for water ice.

New VIPER Lunar Rover to Map Water Ice on the Moon

Oct. 25, 2019

From NASA.gov: NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the Moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman...

ֲý design robotic lunar rover that could give us deeper look into the universe

ֲý design robotic lunar rover that could give us deeper look into the universe

July 17, 2019

From ABC Action News: There’s a group of students at the ֲý Boulder working on a project of astronomical proportions. They’re building a prototype lunar rover that could help us understand the origins of the universe. “This is the antenna module,” student Arun Kumar says, as he demonstrates...