Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics | 6,785 followers on LinkedIn. Delivering the future of space science | LASP is a world-renowned space science research institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. Our lab, which began a decade before NASA was founded, is the only academic research institute in the world to have sent instruments to every planet—and Pluto. We’re at the forefront of space weather and climate monitoring, solar and planetary research, and the search for evidence of habitable worlds.