Aeronautical Engineering

Professor Jeffrey Hoffman, repairing the Hubble Telescope. Image: NASA

13-Year-Old Passes MITx Aerospace Engineering Course

Detecting Leaks with Robots, Wireless Sensors

Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Andrew Whittle are working to increase the world water supply by decreasing loss of water through leaks.

Isabel “Bel” Pesce Mattos ’10 is the founder of FazINOVA, a private business school in Brazil. Photo: Bel Pesce/MIT Alumni Association

Two School Foundings—63 Years Apart—Link MIT with Advances in Brazilian Education

The MIT COOP is the first major university bookstore to accept bitcoin payments. Photo: Dan Elitzer

MIT’s Bitcoin Experiment is Underway

Continuum

Space Probe Tweets its Historic Landing on Comet 67P

MIT professor Richard Binzel says near-Earth asteroids (NEA) are the perfect destination for testing equipment and systems that could ultimately be used to transport people to Mars. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Near-Earth Asteroids: Stepping-Stones to Mars

Giant Steps: Celebrating 100 Years of Flight

This fall, MIT celebrates 100 years of achievements in aeronautics and astronautics and its amazing history of leadership to the nation and the world.

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