Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

MIT Professor Mark Drela designed Daedalus, shown here, a lightweight aircraft that set the world distance record for human-powered flight.

Drela elected fellow of AIAA for aircraft design

December 29, 2006

Alumnus blasts off

December 12, 2006

Stephen Madden, retired professor who worked on Apollo missions, dies at 70

November 17, 2006

Conceptual design for a silent, environmentally friendly passenger plane designed by researchers at the Cambridge-MIT Institute's Silent Aircraft Initiative.

Team moves toward silent, eco-friendly plane

MIT and Cambridge design a silent knight

November 6, 2006

An artist's rendition of a spacecraft with logos from MIT, Georgia Tech and NASA. A group of MIT students is selling space on the satellite to help fund its building. When launched, the satellite would simulate a trip to Mars by sending mice into orbit around the Earth.

Mars group launches high-flying fundraiser

Space ship logos go ka-ching!

November 3, 2006

MIT logs 40 years of flight

October 4, 2006

NASA mission specialist Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper pauses for a moment during her Sept. 12 spacewalk, during which she assembled a major truss segment of the International Space Station.

1st alumna walks in space

October 4, 2006

Jonathan How, a professor in aeronautics and astronautics, joins graduate students Brett Bethke, center, and Mario Valenti, right, in demonstrating their "hands-off" technique of simultaneously controlling four fully-autonomous flying vehicles using a PC.

MIT's intelligent aircraft fly, cooperate autonomously

September 26, 2006

MIT tool aids cost estimates for complex projects

September 19, 2006

Astronaut to give talk on energy and space Aug. 30

August 30, 2006

Draper selects new president

July 13, 2006

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

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