A Florida Professor Helps Launch a New Space Industry

A Florida Professor Helps Launch a New Space Industry 1

Jacque Brund

Joshua E. Colwell is working toward enabling scientists to use privately built spacecraft to conduct experiments.

More than 40 years after man first set foot on the moon, space travel remains for its many fans a lifelong dream that is rarely realized. Joshua E. Colwell, an associate professor of planetary science at the University of Central Florida, is about to help change that. In the past three months, Mr. Colwell and a few other university scientists have begun working with a group of small...