Colorado State University – Pueblo Announces ‘Gateway to Space’ course

 
Pueblo- College and high school students interested in space and who would like to participate in a balloon project, are encouraged to sign up for a course at CSU-Pueblo that will be offered during the spring semester 2005. The course, called “Gateway to Space,” is intended for students of all levels and majors with an interest in rocketry and space exploration. The course will include lectures given by industry experts from many Colorado companies. The lectures will cover a broad range of topics including the history of rocketry, rocket propulsion systems, spacecraft design, satellite orbits, and space exploration.
 
The class, which is part of the spring 2005 semester at CSU-Pueblo, will meet from 2 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, and from 2 to 3 p.m. on Thursdays. The spring semester begins on Monday, January 17.
 
During the semester, teams of students will design their own payloads consisting of a camera and heating system as well as a science experiment of the students’ choosing. The project will need student participation from a variety of skill and talent areas including technical writers, graphic web designers, engineers, scientists, and project managers. The payloads built by Pueblo students will be launched together with payloads created by students from three other Colorado colleges on high altitude balloons to an altitude of 100,000 feet on Saturday, April 16, 2005.
Individuals interested in signing up for the course are encouraged to contact William Brown, assistant professor and physics department chair, at (719) 549-2683 or Wolfgang Sauer, professor and engineering technology chair, at (719) 549-2884.

 
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