• November 23: Dan Baker elected AAAS Fellow for 2006
• October 25: Space Radiation Threats To Astronauts Addressed In Federal Research Study
• October 5: CU-Boulder sponsored research awards total $256.5 million for fiscal 2006
• August 2:
  • CU awarded $2.2M for space studies
• August 1:
  • NASA picks teams for space weather mission and studies (Space Flight Now)
• June 29:
  • Pluto-Bound, student-built dust detector renamed "Venetia," honoring girl who named ninth planet
• March 17:
  • CU scientists eye spokes: Team aims to solve Saturn's dust particle mystery (Daily Camera)
• March 17:
  • New space mission is unlikely (Daily Camera)
• January 16:
  • New Horizons hardware out of this world (Daily Camera)

2005

• December 27:
  • Student-built instrument to fly on NASA Pluto trip (University of Colorado)
• August 14:
  • From Yellowstone to Mars, Todd Neff (Daily Camera)
• August 9:
  • Mars on Earth: As Simple as a Walk in the Park, Leonard David (Space.com)

CU-Boulder Proposal Selected As Finalist For Mission To Probe Past Climate Of Mars

Jan 8, 07 - NASA has selected a team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder as one of two finalists for an orbiting space mission slated to launch in 2011 to probe the past climate of Mars, including its potential for harboring life over the eons.
The team, led by CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will receive $2 million from NASA for a nine-month "Phase A" study for the proposed Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission, or MAVEN.(Read more).