Principal investigators
Jack Burns; Luis Zea
Funding
NASA; Lockheed Martin
Collaboration + support
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences; Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences; ATLAS Institute; Ball Aerospace
This year marked the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and astronaut Neil Armstrong鈥檚 鈥済iant leap for mankind.鈥� Across 彩民宝典, many researchers celebrated the occasion by asking: How can we go back?
Among them is Professor Jack Burns of the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences. He鈥檚 leading a team that is exploring how astronauts might work side-by-side with robots to build infrastructure on the moon. 鈥淭his isn鈥檛 your grandfather鈥檚 Apollo program,鈥� Burns said.听
Scientists in the Bioastronautics Program, meanwhile, are probing how people can stay healthy as they spend more time in space than ever before鈥攆rom designing new kinds of spacesuits to examining the effects of microgravity on bones.
鈥淗umans are always wondering what鈥檚 beyond the horizon,鈥� said Luis Zea, an assistant research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.