A college for the cosmos: by TheAlexKnapp
is jetting light-years away from its initial purpose–training its students to mine and to utilize the minerals being mined—and concentrating on training the future engineers responsible for setting up colonies on the Moon, Mars and wherever no one has gone before. Its students’ roles in space would be essential, since extracting materials once on a planet or moon will likely be easier than carrying it all there. “We’ve got to find the resources.
Since fall 2018, the school—No. 94 on our list of America’s top colleges, ahead of institutions like Virginia Tech and Penn State–has offered several degrees in “space resources,” ranging from a post-baccalaureate certificate to a master’s to a Ph.D. The program’s 75 students take classes such as Space Resources Fundamentals, a broad survey course, and Space Systems Engineering, which gets down to building students’ spacecraft and other projects from materials available on the Moon or Mars.
Paul C. Johnson on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines, which proudly boasts Blaster the Burro as the school mascot. The school nickname? The Orediggers.This may sound like science fiction, but the demand for the School of Mines’ graduates is very real. The commercial space industry is a $350 billion industrial giant, propelled by a generation of Silicon Valley-fueled startups such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX and the Yuri Milner-backed satellite company Planet.
Students get the opportunity to work directly on NASA projects, like the one led by Abbud-Madrid to develop robotic arms for space stations. The program also encourages entrepreneurship. Five space startups count founders as students, including startups that grew out of the program itself.
Angel Abbud Madrid was a NASA alum before joining the Colorado School of Mines' faculty to run its space program.Abbud-Madrid looks at today and sees a time period similar to the one in which the School of Mines was originally founded: the Industrial Revolution, when the infrastructure that paved the way for aviation, automobiles, railroads and more was created.
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