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From Earth to the Moon

MIT-led GRAIL mission enters lunar obit

January 6, 2012

MIT professor, former astronaut Hoffman named to NSBRI Board of Directors

December 29, 2011

Two new exoplanets, Kepler 20e and 20f, are part of a five-planet system orbiting a sun-like star, similar to the artist’s rendering above. Researchers have found the new planets are likely scorching hot, circling their star at a much closer distance than Mercury orbits the Sun.

Two new Earth-sized exoplanets discovered

Some 950 light-years away, team finds smallest exoplanets yet detected.

December 21, 2011

Grant Stokes, head of the Aerospace Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, left; J. Scott Stuart, technical staff member in the Space Control Systems Group.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers receive NASA award

Honored for their role in the Near Earth Object Observation Program

December 6, 2011

A Rosetta mission image of the asteroid 21 Lutetia.

Battered asteroid may have warm core

New analysis of Lutetia finds evidence for molten interior.

October 28, 2011

On May 27, the last day for Endeavour spacewalkers, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff continued to work on the International Space Station.

3 Questions: Greg Chamitoff on the final frontier

Alum-astronaut relives some of the highlights of his space shuttle career.

October 5, 2011

TESS's primary goal would be to identify terrestrial
planets orbiting nearby stars.

MIT’s TESS project awarded $1 million NASA grant

October 4, 2011

An artist's rendering of the twin GRAIL spacecraft orbiting the moon. The project uses two spacecraft flying in formation with known altitude amd separation distance to investigate the moon's gravity field in unprecedented detail.

To the moon

MIT-led GRAIL mission to map the lunar gravitational field.

September 8, 2011

To an asteroid, and back

MIT students to build imaging instrument to fly aboard mission to an asteroid.

July 26, 2011

The late William Lenoir '61, SM '62, PhD '65 was the first MIT alumnus to fly on the space shuttle, joining the crew of STS-5 aboard Columbia in 1982. Here Lenoir checks vision using DIOPTER measuring device during that flight.

Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff

MIT has contributed 27 alumni-astronauts, plenty of earthbound expertise.

July 8, 2011

3 Questions: Richard Binzel on near-Earth asteroids

'2011 MD,' found by a Lincoln Lab team, will pass close to the planet on Monday.

June 27, 2011

Greg Chamitoff, Cady Coleman, and Mike Fincke pose together on the International Space Station. They each wear an "MIT 150" t-shirt

Greetings from space

Astronaut alumni wish MIT a happy 150th from 200 miles above.

June 1, 2011

Charles Stark Draper, right, and CBS journalist Eric Sevareid take a look at the automatic navigation system developed by the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory. In 1958, Sevareid, Draper and several I-Lab staff members made a nationally televised cross-country flight piloted by the system.

Doc Draper in space

A letter written by Charles Stark Draper in 1961 hitches a ride on Space Shuttle Endeavour.

May 31, 2011

Hoffman honored by Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Professor of the Practice in aeronautics and astronautics receives Centennial Medal.

May 26, 2011

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment ready for launch in Endeavour’s payload bay.

New Endeavour for an MIT experiment

Space shuttle propels MIT-led Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to the International Space Station.

May 25, 2011

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