Aeronautical and astronautical engineering

Checking out how well their satellites are performing in microgravity in NASA's KC-135 are (left to right) Professor Dava Newman, consultant Javier deLuis of Payload Systems, Inc., and Dan Feller, a senior in aeronautics and astronautics.

MIT seniors develop mini satellites

Ultimate goal: space telescope with higher resolution than Hubble

June 2, 2000

Sophomore Sumita Pennathur receives the James Means Memorial Award for Excellence in Space Systems Engineering from Professor Edward Crawley, head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Aeronautics/astronautics honors students, faculty

May 31, 2000

Larz Andersen Park is one of the landscape photographs by David Akiba on view in Every Shadow has a Name in the Dean's Gallery. For the past 18 years Mr. Akiba has photographed Boston's Emerald Necklace, exploring the intricate relationship of pond, stream and river to the surrounding landscape while observing both day-to-day weather patterns and the effect of seasonal changes.

Aero/astro student design team takes plane to contest on plains

May 17, 2000

Showing off some of the Air Camel's finer features are the aircraft's designer/builders, all students in aeronautics and astronautics. Left to right: Larry Baskett, Allen Chen, Larry Pilkington, Jacob Markish (partly hidden) and Bernard Ahyou. Not pictured are Carol Cheung, Dan Benhammou and Adam Diedrich.

Aero/astro student design team takes plane to contest on plains

May 17, 2000

Newman to give Sigma Xi lecture

May 3, 2000

Astronaut and MIT alumnus John Grunsfeld, holding a framed collection of MIT flags he took into space with him, talks about his flights with UROP assistant director Michael Bergren (left), UROP program assistant Melissa Martin, and Professor Kim Vandiver (far right), director of the Edgerton Center and dean for undergraduate research.

Astronaut/alum visits MIT to lecture and chat

April 26, 2000

MIT students develop mini satellites

Ultimate goal: space telescope with higher resolution than Hubble

April 3, 2000

MIT team creates miniature satellites

March 29, 2000

Astronaut Janice Voss walks out of the crew quarters at the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of the launch of STS-99, accompanied by Mamoru Mohri (left) of the Japanese space agency (NASDA) and Gerhard Thiele of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Alumna, Draper, faculty involved in shuttle radar mission

March 8, 2000

Aero-astro students get taste of space

February 16, 2000

Ryan Pradit, 9, of Portsmouth, NH, holds the internal part of an actual NASA spacesuit while Donald W. Rethke ("Dr. Flush") explains how the tube-filled suit works to keep an astronant both warm and cool at the same time.

Kids learn about astronaut life and meet 'Dr. Flush'

February 2, 2000

NASA sends students to SDM program

January 26, 2000

MIT scientists discover X-ray source associated with black hole at the center of our galaxy

Unexpectedly faint source may spawn new theories on how matter flows into black holes

January 14, 2000

MIT animation reveals the violent X-ray sky with unprecedented clarity

Video showcases data from Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite

January 13, 2000

NASA astronaut John M. Grunsfeld (SB 1980) conducts a space walk during last month's space shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Dr. Grunsfeld is at the end of Discovery's remote manipulator system as he prepares to replace a radio transmitter in one of Hubble's electronics bays.

Many MIT scientists resume Hubble work -- with alum's help

January 12, 2000

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MIT students develop mini satellites

MIT team creates miniature satellites

Alumna, Draper, faculty involved in shuttle radar mission

Aero-astro students get taste of space

Kids learn about astronaut life and meet 'Dr. Flush'

NASA sends students to SDM program

MIT scientists discover X-ray source associated with black hole at the center of our galaxy

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