UCF Space Medicine Expert: Polaris Dawn Brings New Areas of Research, Medical Care UCF College of Medicine’s Emmanuel Urquieta, discusses the Polaris Dawn flight and vacuum of space astronauts will face.
4 Volunteers Will Spend 45 Days in a NASA-simulated Mars Habitat 鈥� How Will They Handle Isolation, Mental Health? Crew members will live and work in a 650-square-foot habitat meant to mimic the red planet.
UCF Partners with NASA on New Engineering Graduate Certificate The certificate program will train students to evaluate and test the electrical and electronic components of devices and equipment used in the harsh environment of space.
UCF Joins Space-Edge Accelerator to Advance Biomedical Innovations, Businesses The 12-week hybrid program will help researchers and businesses develop strategies to support health-related advancements that will benefit humans in space and on Earth.
UCF鈥檚 First Mission to the Moon Passes Two Critical Milestones The objective of the mission is to study how the Moon鈥檚 Gruithuisen domes were formed and provide greater insight on the creation and composition on the lunar surface.
UCF to Expand Space Medicine Research, Curriculum Aimed at Keeping Space Travelers Healthy Emmanuel Urquieta will lead the program, which will create space medicine training for students in medicine, nursing, engineering, computer science, and optics and photonics.
Scientists Discover CO2 and CO Ices in Outskirts of Solar System A UCF-led research team鈥檚 findings revealed a vast presence of ancient carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ices on trans-Neptunian objects, suggesting carbon dioxide may have existed at the formation of our solar system.
果冻传媒 Researcher Is Developing Algorithms to Further Space, Sea Exploration The work will help protect spacecraft from colliding with objects like asteroids and satellites.
UCF Student鈥檚 Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions Brittany Harvison studied the composition of families of ancient asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system and if they may have carried water to Earth.
Robot Rovers on the “Moon”: Lunabotics Challenge Preps Students for Space Careers College teams, including a group of Knights, will build robot rovers and compete at the new Regolith Bin at UCF’s Exolith Lab before the best crews advance to finals at Kennedy Space Center.
