NASA Announces Artemis II Backup Crew Member for Moon Mission – NASA

NASA has selected astronaut Andre Douglas as a backup crew member for the agency’s Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under NASA’s Artemis campaign. Douglas will train with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen. If a NASA astronaut is unable to participate … Read more

New dinosaur species identified and named by CSU grad, faculty member

The reconstructed skull of a new dinosaur species, Lokiceratops, is on display at a museum in Denmark after it was assembled, identified and named by a team of researchers led by Colorado State University faculty member Joseph Sertich and University professor Mark Loewen of Utah.

A new species of dinosaur, with unusually graceful horns on its head and behind its neck, lived with at least four other species of rhino- or elephant-like dinosaurs 78 million years ago in what is now northern Montana, researcher Joseph Sertich said. Sertich, an affiliate faculty member at Colorado State University, and Professor Mark Loewen … Read more