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In other news: Mary Cleave, a retired NASA astronaut and Utah State University alumni, died on Nov. 27. She was 76 years old.
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A first look at the historic asteroid sample that was delivered to Utah’s West desert on September 24 indicate Bennu contains the building blocks of life.
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Research funding for the University of Utah reached a record $768 million in the 2023 fiscal year. This marks a decade of year-over-year increases.
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The OSIRIS-Rex mission has picked up a piece of the asteroid Bennu projected to pass close to Earth. Precautionary? Maybe. But there's a big enough risk that we're doing something about it.
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This year’s Small Satellite conference kicked off last weekend with talks held at USU's Logan campus. On Sunday, mission operator Michael Hauge gave an update on NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission.
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A spacecraft carrying rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu is cruising back to earth and is expected to drop off the precious cargo at Utah’s Dugway Proving Ground in two months.
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In other news: Utah’s new Great Salt Lake Watershed Enhancement Trust is now starting to release up to $10 million in grant funds for projects to protect or restore wetlands and habitats of the lake.
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They were one of two sixth grade teams chosen, and the only one from Utah.
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Ridgeline and Sky View students in Cache Valley made live contact with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. UPR’s Clayre Scott reports on their conversations with an astronaut above earth.
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Space Dynamics Laboratory built the deep-set radio now being used to help NASA learn about a type of orbit that allows for good communication with less energy.