21 October 2020
OSIRIS-REx successfully touches asteroid Bennu
... gas firing, and back-away from Bennu are major accomplishments for the team,” said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson. If the sampling effort fell short of its 60 gram goal or indeed did not...
15 March 2021
Engineers propose a "Lunar Ark" to preserve millions of species' DNA on the Moon
...at the University of Arizona are proposing an ambitious project to safeguard the future of millions of animal, plant and fungi species on Earth by cryogenically freezing seed, spore, sperm and egg samples in a lunar ark hidden in caves under the Moon...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...USA. She received an undergraduate degree in physics at Rice University and a PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) programme and is a Fellow...
April 2026
Rethinking the spacesuit as a biological system
..., outreach and research. While working on STEM initiatives linked to SaxaVord Spaceport in Shetland, he connected to the University of Arizona’s Center for Human Space Exploration and, through it, to Cameron Smith – an anthropologist, explorer and...
