Colorado in Space
Colorado doesn’t just admire the stars — it helps explore them. Colorado claims 14 NASA astronauts — including native son Jack Swigert, who famously steered the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely home. In the race to explore space, Colorado engineers build spacecraft, astronauts train in local labs, and CU Boulder launches instruments to every planet in the solar system, like an X-ray spectrometer students helped design and build that will study the solar wind. Corporations in Colorado build rovers, launch satellites and even the military looks this way. The US Space Command has a significant presence in Colorado Springs. Thin air and high-altitude labs lift Colorado engineers and scientists high above others.
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