Instrument provides opportunities and challenges

A student-built instrument launching with an upcoming space mission to an asteroid will provide not only valuable training and experience for future aeronautical engineers, but also vital scientific data for later research. The mission, sponsored by NASA and the University of Arizona, will launch in late 2016 and rendezvous with the asteroid two years later….

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Having faith through climate change

  Climate Change and faith aren’t two ideas you often hear in the same sentence. Yet there is a long history of religious thought about the role of humans as stewards of the environment. In recent years, almost all major religions in the world have taken steps forward in their mission to care for the…

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Ariz. lawmakers push bill for space tourism

Tucson — Commercial space travel may seem like science fiction, but by 2016, lawmakers are hoping that you’ll be able to hitch a ride to the stratosphere right here in Ariz. Space Development Company Paragon based in Tucson is developing a high altitude balloon ride to the edge of space. For $75,000, participants will travel…

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