NASA's Kennedy Space Center will rename one of its iconic facilities in honor of legendary astronaut and the first person to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong (BSAE’55, DEA’67, HDR’70, OAE’99).

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AAE) is pleased to announce an expanded option for earning an M.S. degree.

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

Rakesh K. Kapania, Ph.D.'85, was awarded the Boeing Research and Technology Performance and Innovation Award.

Saikumar Reddy Yeratapally wins 2014 International Symposium on Superalloys Scholarship

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics alumnus Dr. Mark Brockman, M.S.'86; Ph.D.'97, has been awarded a 2014 Woodrow Wilson Ohio Teaching Fellowship

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.