Students from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics were joined by civil engineering and mechanical engineering students on the nearly two-week trip to Sydney.

Mark Geyer (BSAAE '82, MSAAE '84), who became the 12th director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in late May, is ready to remind the world NASA is "back in the business of launching people" into space.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics developed the "launchboxes" so K-12 schools can conduct zero-gravity experiments in space.

A group of students in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics won NASA's University Student Research Challenge but still has work to do to secure a grant.

Utsav Jain, a Ph.D student in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has spent the summer at the FAA's William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, N.J.

Hsu Lo Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Kathleen Howell -- and a near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO), a specialty of hers -- was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Geoffrey Andrews (MSAAE '17) is the 2018 recipient of the AIAA Foundation's Abe M. Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement in Aeronautics.

Marcos Flores was "shocked" when he was selected in a six-member class of NASA flight directors in July. And proud. "Coming from Puerto Rico and having the aspirations I've had, this is something that's going to mean a lot, not just to myself but to everybody around me," he says.

AAE professor Steven Collicott and his Zero-Gravity Flight Experiment class sent its third payload on Blue Origin's suborbital rocket, New Shepard, Wednesday.

Allison Bolinger (BSAAAE '04) wasn't sure she could leave the comfort and familiarity of NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab. But when she took a leap, she was rewarded: By being selected into an elite group at the agency.