Astronautical Engineering

For This Brother-Sister Pluto Team, Love of Science Runs in the Family

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

Fall 2014

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.

MIT Researchers Tell Airlines to Lighten Up

Project Icarus: MIT, Asteroids, Movies, and Weather Balloons

How Space Weather Affects Communication

Winter 2011

MIT’s Innovation Gene at Work

A discussion of a few of the turning points and contributions that have helped make MIT great.

Summer 2006

Sheila Widnall

Richard and Linda Hardy give MIT $800,000 to support a graduate fellowship in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Photo: Dan Bronson

Summer 2006

Launching a Better Life

Richard and Linda Hardy give MIT $800,000 to support a fellowship in aeronautics and astronautics.