“IIAS exemplifies what a leading-edge educational institute should be: research-focused, international, and a combination of virtual learning with immersive field campaigns. Our students lead novel, applied, and occasionally deployed research, and are encouraged to serve the communities from which they come.”...
Edmonton, Alba. - From 29 June to 1 July, 2018, PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Candidate Capt. Theon Te Koeti, Polar Suborbital Science in the Upper Mesosphere (PoSSUM) Executive Director Dr. Jason Reimuller, and PoSSUM Education and Public Outreach Director Adrien Mauduit conducted high-altitude research using a CT-155...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Sept. 15, 2016) – The Space Foundation is partnering with Project PoSSUM to offer the PoSSUM Academy upper-atmospheric and astronautics education program in 2017. The program, designed by upper atmospheric scientists and former NASA astronaut instructors, is an immersive education program for...
Project PoSSUM conducted its first in-flight evaluation of the Final Frontier Design (FFD) 3G IVA spacesuit in the cockpit environment on July 30, 2016. The test was conducted in a Mooney M20K aircraft, flown from Boulder Municipal Airport, and assessed the operational envelope and the...
PoSSUM graduated 13 new Scientist-Astronaut Candidates as part of PoSSUM Class 1601. The PoSSUM Scientist-Astronaut Program, designed by former NASA astronaut instructors and hosted by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., gives its candidates the skills to effectively conduct research on commercial space vehicles...
