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The Columbia Space Initiative held a live call with the International Space Station on Oct. 25 in the Davis Auditorium in the Schapiro Center. Over 400 students attended the in-person and online event, which featured a Q&A with astronaut Don Pettit, who is currently aboard the ISS....Read More
On October 25, 2024, the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) hosted a live downlink in the Davis Auditorium with astronaut Don Pettit. More than 400 people gathered for the live conversation, including high school students from Carey High School in Long Island....Read More
After nearly seven years of inactivity, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Friends of Morningside Park, and Columbia University officially reactivated the Morningside Park waterfall on Friday morning.....Read More
Columbia Space Initiative has done it yet again at this year's NASA SUITS challenge, tackling user interface solutions for future space missions! 🧑‍🚀🚀 Their innovative proposal, featuring an augmented reality interface for astronauts' Extra Vehicular Activities (EVA) on the moon and Mars, was accepted as this year’s challenge scenario!....Read More
Congratulations to our Columbia Space Initiative team, who took second place at NASA’s Gateways to Blue Skies competition! 👏 The challenge aims to alleviate the effects of climate change, and this year’s competition asked teams to conceptualize an aviation-related system.....Read More
Columbia Space Initiative is known to be one of the most ambitious clubs on campus. From launching rockets to 30,000 feet, to building a satellite to launch in 2027, to deploying an autonomous boat to monitor algae blooms in NYC waterways, to sending and tracking a balloon to the edge of space.....Read More
In this episode of NASA EDGE, we’ll hear how NASA’s Cubesat Launch Initiative, the University Nanosatellite Program, and many others are working together to help students develop, build, launch and operate their own small satellites to conduct Lunar, search and rescue, and even biological missions.....Read More
The Columbia Space Initiative Rocketry team designed, built, and launched a hybrid rocket in one year for the first time in Columbia history! This past week, 20 members of the CSI rockets team travelled to New Mexico, representing Columbia at Spaceport America Cup, the world's largest intercollegiate rocket competition.....Read More
Talk about a long-distance call! Space enthusiasts from across Columbia’s campus filled the Altschul Auditorium on April 21 for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to video call the International Space Station (ISS). Led by the Columbia Space Initiative, the 90-minute event featured a Q-and-A with NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who recently made his first expedition into space. Hoburg is currently on the ISS as part of NASA's Crew-6 mission.....Read More
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and NASA announced their collaboration with eight universities for a new Mission Concept Program, or MCP, from Jan. 5 to Feb. 3, 2024.....Read More
A Columbia University satellite team is poised to take off, thanks to funding from NASA. At the end of March, Columbia University’s satellite development team was chosen as one of the eight universities, including Harvard College and Saint Louis University, for nanosatellite flight opportunities by NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. This is the first time Columbia University has been selected for the program.....Read More
The Columbia Space Initiative hosted a live video call on Friday with NASA astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who is currently living and working onboard the International Space Station. Students gathered in the Frank Altschul Auditorium in the International Affairs Building to connect in real time with Hoburg, who orbits Earth at an altitude of around 250 miles.....Read More
This past Friday, the Columbia Space Initiative hosted a once-in-a-lifetime video call with Astronaut Woody Hoburg live from the International Space Station to discuss the future of space exploration and life in outer space.....Read More
NASA will launch the first satellite designed, built, and tested by Columbia students into orbit to survey the universe in the next few years. The satellite, a brainchild of Columbia Space Initiative and Columbia University Robotics Club, was accepted in late March to be launched by NASA.....Read More
NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) has partnered with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force to select eight schools for the University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) Mission Concepts-1: 2023 Summer Series.....Read More
NASA has selected eight small research satellites across seven states to fly to space helping address aspects of the agency’s education, science, or technology development goals.....Read More
One of five teams selected by NASA, the Columbia group will send bacteria to the International Space Station to understand how low gravity impacts germs....Read More
The 24thSpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station. The experiments aboard include studies of bioprinting, crystallization of monoclonal antibodies, changes in immune function, plant gene expression changes, laundering clothes in space, processing alloys, and student citizen science projects.....Read More
Columbia is home to an astonishing number of student clubs—more than 500 by our count. Whether baseball stats or tap dance is your jam, there’s a community here that shares your passion. Check out the offerings on Columbia Spectator’s new LionClubs website, LionLink, or Columbia undergraduate admissions site. Here are a few of the clubs that caught our eye.....Read More
For the past year, students from five universities across the United States have been working to ready payloads for launch in late 2021 as a part of Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science (SPOCS).....Read More
Columbia Engineering is proud to announce that the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) student club will send a payload to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, as one of five teams selected nationwide to participate in the NASA STEM on Station initiative.....Read More
One breezy Saturday in late January, John Pederson '19SEAS and Lily Zhao '19SEAS met up with friends from the Columbia Space Initiative (CSI) and the Society of Women Engineers for a special mission. Their objective: to set aloft a giant black balloon....Read More
In just five semesters since launching the Columbia Space Initiative, students have invented futuristic technologies, won NASA competitions, and sent craft up to the stratosphere, all to help humanity explore the cosmos....Read More
Once thought impossible, space exploration is a definite reality of our present time, with initiatives such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX (goal to settle Mars) and NASA’s ongoing investigations into life outside of Earth. Columbia Space Initiative represents an eclectic group of individuals....Read More
A multidisciplinary team from the Columbia Space Initiative took first place at NASA’s Langley Advanced Air Vehicles Challenge with their design of a sleek and sustainable type of plane. Called the Gryphon, their aircraft incorporates a highly aerodynamic....Read More
Columbia Space Initiative (CSI), one of Columbia’s newest student clubs dedicated to all things space and space tech, is less than a year old, but it’s already seen success: The group presented a design for an asteroid anchor at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory and competed....Read More
The gray stone walls of Lerner Hall’s Broadway Room are not always lined with astrophotography and meter-wide scientific reports on the properties of dark matter. But at last Friday evening’s 'CU in Space' exhibition....Read More
