• November 23: Dan Baker elected AAAS Fellow for 2006
• October 25: Space Radiation Threats To Astronauts Addressed In Federal Research Study
• October 5: CU-Boulder sponsored research awards total $256.5 million for fiscal 2006
• August 2:
  • CU awarded $2.2M for space studies
• August 1:
  • NASA picks teams for space weather mission and studies (Space Flight Now)
• June 29:
  • Pluto-Bound, student-built dust detector renamed "Venetia," honoring girl who named ninth planet
• March 17:
  • CU scientists eye spokes: Team aims to solve Saturn's dust particle mystery (Daily Camera)
• March 17:
  • New space mission is unlikely (Daily Camera)
• January 16:
  • New Horizons hardware out of this world (Daily Camera)

2005

• December 27:
  • Student-built instrument to fly on NASA Pluto trip (University of Colorado)
• August 14:
  • From Yellowstone to Mars, Todd Neff (Daily Camera)
• August 9:
  • Mars on Earth: As Simple as a Walk in the Park, Leonard David(Space.com)

Jan. 9
NASA selected the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics for a four-year, $5 million grant for the creation of the Colorado Center for Lunar Dust and Atmospheric Studies. Led by principal investigator and professor Mihály Horányi, the team will build a dust particle accelerator in a former nuclear physics facility on CU-Boulder’s East Campus as part of the effort.

The team will also study physical characteristics of lunar dust, from its
interactions with the moon's atmosphere and the solar wind to its impacts on optical and mechanical devices that will be on the moon for extended periods. The results of these investigations will extend our knowledge of lunar science and astronaut safety, and will support NASA’s efforts the revisit the lunar surface. Read more

September 15, 2008

In the largest research contract ever awarded to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has been selected by NASA to lead a $485 million orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2013 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the ages.

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