Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Aeronautics and astronautics awards

June 7, 2006

Roaring ROTC ceremony will feature Air Force flyby April 28

April 26, 2006

MIT's SPHERES mini satellites rocketed into space on Monday, April 24, en route to the International Space Station. The SPHERES team tested the satellites in 2004 aboard a NASA plane used to simulate weightlessness. From left are team members Stephanie Chen, Steve Sell and Edmund Kong.

Mini MIT satellites rocketing to space station

April 25, 2006

Professors Yet-Ming Chiang, left, and Steven Hall show components of their electrochemically actuated morphing rotor prototype (foreground) as well as a reduced-scale model (background) of a previous technology that uses piezoelectrics as the active materials.

MIT makes move toward vehicles that morph

March 22, 2006

MIT scientist shares AAAS honor for cooperation

February 17, 2006

Carl Dietrich, 2006 winner of the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, holds a model of the personal air vehicle that he envisions for use in the air and on the road.

Sky's no limit for Lemelson winner

February 15, 2006

Seniors David Walfisch, left, and Kieran Culligan recently tested out a skate design that features a slider on a pivoting blade. Their advisor Kim Blair, director of the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, is at center.

Cool research centers on Olympic skates

February 10, 2006

Challenger anniversary recalls MIT's contributions

January 24, 2006

IAP: Life on Mars could be human, someday

January 12, 2006

In this aerial view of the Haughton-Mars Base, near the North Pole, the six core structures (including the MIT tent) can be seen on the left.

MIT researchers visit Mars on Earth

November 16, 2005

Covert to receive one of aviation's highest awards

November 4, 2005

The X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer observatory recently took these images of a galaxy cluster (one for each of four cameras and telescopes key to the device).

MIT space cameras take first pictures

October 14, 2005

Awards and Honors

September 28, 2005

Wang Dong, of Shanghai, China, spent six weeks at MIT this summer participating in the Research Science Institute, a program for high school students. He reported on his experience for the MIT News Office.

Top HS students explore math, space, more

August 11, 2005

Astronaut Wendy B. Lawrence, mission specialist, S.M. 1988.

Alumna has right stuff for shuttle flight

August 4, 2005

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