FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – The nation’s eyes have been glued to the progress of the Artemis II mission. One particularly interested person is a senior at NDSU who worked at NASA this past summer. Emily Mikhail was named an Astronaut Scholar for 2025-26 and worked at the NASA facility in Langley, Virginia. Her research primarily focused on lunar landers and…
FLORIDA (KVRR) — NASA is moving fast to blast off to the moon with help from the chair of the UND Space Studies program. Dr. Pablo De Leon is once again down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is one of NASA’s first returns to the moon since December 1972. But the crew will not land on the…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — UND hosts the president of Northrop Grumman Defense Systems Sector to discuss his perspectives on national security for the future. The event is connected to the ongoing second annual Space Operations Summit and as part of the university’s ongoing speaker series called “UND LEADS: Broad Perspectives on National Security”. Ben Davies with Northrop Grumman oversees…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — You may think that you have a long way to travel for Christmas, but it doesn’t match this incredible journey. On Christmas Eve, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make it’s closest pass by the Sun, coming within 3.8 million miles of the surface. That’s closer than any man-made object has ever come to our star. The…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Grand Farm hosts its fourth annual Space Ag conference focusing on advancements in agriculture technology for both space and Earth. The conference came together when Grand Farm and the head of Plant Sciences at NASA worked to discover ways to find sustainability and feed people on Mars. With the topic becoming popular, Grand Farm brought…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award has been given out to 48 of the most prominent North Dakotans since it was first awarded in 1961. And now they have a 49th member, Astronaut James Buchli. “He was truly an inspiration. He would relate very well to the students, and he would encourage them to look…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) — NASA astronaut James Buchli will be the 49th recipient of the North Dakota Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award, the state’s highest honor. Buchli was born in New Rockford and became the first North Dakotan to fly in space. He is a veteran of four space flights and has orbited the Earth 319 times, spending 20 days…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – In June last year we told you about Jake Sundberg, an NDSU student who was getting a NASA scholarship. Well that day is today, as he was presented the award by Joe Tanner, a retired astronaut. Sundberg has been working with composite materials and 3-D printing which caught the attention of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation. The…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) – A University of North Dakota assistant professor helped make space flight system components on the Artemis One rocket whose launch had to be postponed. Dr. Keith Crisman worked on the project during an internship with Marshall Space Flight Center in 2012. The Chair of the UND Space Studies program, Dr. Pablo De Leon, was at…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — The newly released images from NASA’s James Webb Telescope has space fans excited for what’s to come. The images show the farthest we can see of the universe, featuring the formation of stars, dying stars and spirals of galaxies. A professor at MSUM says NASA has worked on the Webb telescope for decades, launching more than…
