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Photos from the TRACERS mission launch watch party at Van Allen Hall on the University of Iowa campus on Wednesday.

The launch of twin NASA satellites built by University of Iowa researchers was called off Tuesday, and will be attempted again on Wednesday.

Six years after the University of Iowa landed $115 million from NASA to research how solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field -- marking the largest external funding award in campus history -- the twin satellites that UI researchers have been building for the mission are set to launch Tuesday.

Here’s how Cedar Rapids’ West Willow Elementary School teacher Sara Yedlik, chosen for a highly competitive national program for teachers, will bring back to her classroom what she learned.

The lunar eclipse -- or, so-called blood moon -- will be visible for about an hour starting at 1:26 a.m. Central on Friday morning. Peak viewing will be close to 2 a.m. Central.

Despite a court order blocking an attempted freeze on all federal grants, loans, and other forms of financial aid, researchers across Iowa’s public universities are being impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive orders — including those eliminating “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”

For her decades of space flight and research with NASA and now Axiom space, Iowa native and prolific astronaut Peggy Whitson will be inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation announced Tuesday.

Iowa native and prolific astronaut — first with NASA for three decades and recently as director of human space flight for Axiom Space — Peggy Whitson again is celestial bound as commander of the 2025 Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station.

Seven years later -- after securing a record-setting $115 million grant to pursue the project, navigating delays through COVID, and losing its leader in professor Kletzing’s unexpected passing -- the groundbreaking $165.7 million mission is nearing launch.

Earth is getting another “mini” moon this month, and a University of Iowa astronomer said the school bus-sized meteor orbiting the planet actually is much closer than the moon you can see.

Iowa U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks visited the University of Iowa to highlight $1.5 million in federal dollars she helped secure for STEM development and space research.

Cornell College grad David Hilmers will be inducted into the 2024 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, joining more than 100 other astronauts honored in the exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Iowa astronauts speak about the work that’s done during missions and the experience of seeing Earth from space.

NASA’s TEMPO listed in Time magazine’s best inventions of 2023

Kletzing expanded on Van Allen’s work, building and flying suborbital sounding rockets over active aurora and taking measurements of wave electric and magnetic fields — among the 30 missions he’s been directly involved with since joining the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1996.