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Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

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Daniel Hastings

Hastings is new head of Engineering Systems Division

July 15, 2004

Airplane ticket taxes lower than airlines claim, study says

June 18, 2004

Aeronautics and astronautics

June 2, 2004

John-Paul Clarke's Continuous Descent Approach procedure for reducing the noise of landing aircraft is attracting the attention of aviation authorities around the world.

MIT-led team develops new method to cut noise from landing planes

May 5, 2004

John-Paul Clarke's Continuous Descent Approach procedure for reducing the noise of landing aircraft is attracting the attention of aviation authorities around the world.

MIT-led team cuts noise from landing planes

April 30, 2004

Astronaut and MIT alumnus Mike Fincke (left) looks over a procedures checklist during a training session for his International Space Station mission with cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka (right).

Alumnus Fincke blasts off for half a year in space

April 28, 2004

Cosmonaut Gennady I. Padalka, Expedition 9 commander, works with the torso portion of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit space suit during a training session in the International Space Station (ISS) Quest airlock mockup/trainer in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center. Astronaut Edward Michael (Mike) Fincke, NASA ISS science officer and flight engineer, looks over a procedures...

Alumnus blasts off for half a year in space

April 16, 2004

Joseph Gavin

Consider one-way Mars mission, Gavin says

April 14, 2004

MIT space researchers respond to President Bush's Mars plan

January 28, 2004

A view inside the Mars Gravity Biosatellite, which will spin to create artificial gravity at the same level as that on Mars (approximately one-third of Earth's) in order to be able to study the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals.

Mission to explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals

January 14, 2004

The Mars Gravity Biosatellite will serve as a stepping stone from Earth to Mars, by providing the first ever data on the effects of Martian-level gravity on mammals

Space mission will explore effect of Mars' gravity on mammals

January 9, 2004

Sheila Widnall

Widnall: Columbia accident has implications for educating and utilizing engineers

November 19, 2003

Sheila Widnall speaking at the third annual Brunel Lecture Series on Nov. 4.

Columbia accident has implications for educating, utilizing engineers

November 13, 2003

Students participate in a videoconference from Room 9-057 with International Space Station astronauts Ed Lu (leaping) and Commander Yuri Malenchenko.

Students get face time with astronauts

October 1, 2003

MIT leads new aviation center

September 25, 2003