An Orbital Sciences Corporations Antares rocket with the SS Janice Voss (BSE Sc'75) Cygnus spacecraft lifted off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) at Wallops Island, Virginia on July 13, 2014 at 12:52pm EDT (1652 GMT).
Prof. Bill Crossley's AAE 451 Team 5 won second place in NASA Langley's University Design Challenge for aircraft design.
Front Row: YiWei Lee, Sara Jacobson, Timothy Nye (First Lead), Brandy Shaffer, Cameron Gantz, Collin Ramsey
Back Row: Nicholas Crass, Daniel St. Pierre (Second Lead), Zachary Harman
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels will testify about human space flight during a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology hearing Wednesday (June 25).
Professor Jay Melosh (AAE by Courtesy) is the 2014 recipient of the Herbert Newby McCoy Award, the most prestigious research honor in the natural sciences given by Purdue University.
A report co-led by President Mitch Daniels on the future of U.S. human spaceflight is making headlines worldwide after its release Wednesday (June 4) in Washington, D.C.
Purdue students successfully tested a 4000 lb thrust rocket combustor on May 13 at the High Pressure Lab. The combustor is a test unit built to demonstrate technologies for a lunar lander, and was developed according to NASA requirements by AAE students during the Propulsion Design, Build, Test class taught by Professor Bill Anderson.