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BTN LiveBIG: Iowa grad student attempts to unravel secrets of the universe
BTN LiveBIG: Iowa grad student attempts to unravel secrets of the universe
Space: The Final Frontier. That iconic phrase opened every episode of the original Star Trek series, which featured a team of intrepid space explorers that included the colorful, quotable Dr. Leonard ?Bones? McCoy. Today, another McCoy is exploring new parts of outer space, even if he?s not actually going there. That would be Jake McCoy, […]
BTN LiveBIG: Big Ten professors helping NASA look for life on other worlds
BTN LiveBIG: Big Ten professors helping NASA look for life on other worlds
Coming out of the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution of the 18th century, scholars understood two things their predecessors hadn?t known about the universe: It?s incredibly vast, and the Earth isn?t at the center of it. Together, these realizations started a new vein of inquiry in the sciences and beyond, one that boiled down to a single […]
BTN LiveBIG: Ohio State student is no 'space oddity'
BTN LiveBIG: Ohio State student is no 'space oddity'
More than 30 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman and the youngest-ever astronaut to travel to space. Today, Jillian Yuricich, a junior majoring in aerospace engineering at Ohio State, wants to follow in the footsteps of Ride and 57 other women who?ve made that journey. Though it?s a relatively small, exclusive group, […]
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota women reaching for the stars
BTN LiveBIG: Minnesota women reaching for the stars
A team of five women took an out-of-this-world approach to their senior capstone project, designing suits for NASA instead of the runway.
BTN LiveBIG: Nebraska doing out of this world research
BTN LiveBIG: Nebraska doing out of this world research
If all goes according to plan, a group of University of Nebraska students will go up in a microgravity flight simulator this May to see if an astronaut can absorb a robotic capsule that can diagnose internal disease. Students from the University of Nebraska?s College of Engineering, along with students from other disciplines, have been […]
BTN LiveBIG: An out of this world reunion at Purdue
BTN LiveBIG: An out of this world reunion at Purdue
Purdue University graduates have walked on the moon, worked in the Mir Space Station, and flown the Shuttle. They also have contributed many others who work at NASA or in the burgeoning private space programs. And eight of the Purdue astronauts came back on campus to talk about their careers and experiences. President Mitch Daniels […]
