UAF professor awarded $25k prize from NASA
A University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering professor is one of 20 people nationwide who received NASA’s Space Tech Catalyst Prize.
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A University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering professor is one of 20 people nationwide who received NASA’s Space Tech Catalyst Prize.
Rock crushing, virtual reality, space simulations and rambunctious robotics were on full display Saturday at Usibelli Engineering Building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks Troth Yeddha Campus.
Liftoff on Dec. 15 in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Astra’s rocket reaches space after its Dec. 15 launch. (Photo/Courtesy/Astra) An engineer works at The Launch Company’s shop. (Photo/Courtesy/The Launch Company) The PSCA Launch Site in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Nighttime lights at the PSCA before the Dec. 15 launch attempt. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Forty miles from the City of Kodiak sits the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, only one of four places to launch a rocket into orbit from the United States, and where, just a week ago on Dec. 15, California-based Astra bec...