Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Former astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman is now a senior lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Scientist, then astronaut, now lecturer, Hoffman returns to MIT

March 13, 2002

Graduate student Ioannis Martinos and Professor Eric Feron of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics hold the robotic helicopter they helped develop.

MIT's robotic helicopter makes first acrobatic roll

February 1, 2002

Artist's rendition of the New Horizons spacecraft. The craft's miniature cameras, radio science experiment, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers and space plasma experiments will characterize the global geology and geomorphology of Pluto and Charon, map their surface compositions and temperatures, and examine Pluto's atmosphere in detail. The spacecraft's most prominent design feature is an 8-fo...

MIT researcher on team for possible 2006 Pluto mission

December 4, 2001

Aerospace corporations join Air Force-MIT effort to boost war fighter readiness

Boeing and Chromalloy join Lean Sustainment Initiative

November 1, 2001

Air pollution on high: computer model assesses impact of aviation-related emissions

August 29, 2001

Aero/astro confers awards on 26

June 6, 2001

Tarik Ward, a sophomore in aeronautics and astronautics, shows off his entry in Unified Engineering's aerial contest.

Aero/astro students vie for flight title

May 16, 2001

The ISS Expedition 1 crew prior to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Left to right: crew commander William Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev.

Alum completes first space station expedition

May 2, 2001

Professor Young of aero/astro recalls motivation to be a 'space cadet'

April 25, 2001

Engine unveiled

April 11, 2001

MIT students help celebrate first human space flight

April 11, 2001

Chandra offers views of stellar nursery and X-ray wind

November 15, 2000

Chandra Observatory uncovers hot stars in the making

The core of the Orion Trapezium cluster shows an unprecedented accumulation of stars showing extreme temperatures

November 9, 2000

When viewing the two gradient-shaded circles in this image on the monitor, most people would see one as concave and the other as convex, since light is assumed to come from "above." Dr. Charles Oman and colleagues wondered whether this illusion would change in orbital flight, where "above" is no longer gravitationally defined. The Center for Space Research will conduct virtual-reality experiments ...

Virtual reality is central to group of MIT space station experiments

November 8, 2000

Chandra observes cosmic traffic pile-up in energetic quasar jet