Is space burnt orange? We can think of at least 10 reasons why it is: 1. utaerospace engineering alumni and students helped complete the first U.S. Moon landing in 50 years. “Houston, Odysseus has found its new home.” 2. Longhorn Alan Stern led nasa’s New Horizons mission to help us understand Pluto and worlds at the edge of our solar system. 3. There are more than 500,000 objects floating in space and only about 2,000 of them are operational. UT professor Moriba Jah (moribajah), a former spacecraft navigator for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is on a mission to curtail the cosmic junkyard. 4. utexaslaw student Brittany Silvester’s interests lie at the intersection of space travel and the law, specifically laws that will govern future human presence on the Moon and Mars. She has held several NASA internships and recently won an award from the strausscenter. 5. Stephanie Wilson, an astronaut who has participated in three missions, shares with fellow Longhorns her keys to succes...