The students, faculty and staff in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies that enable them, and the missions they fulfill. Our environment is connected, busy, global, hectic, open, collegial ... and fun.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
The May 29 near-miss by the object catalogued as “2012 KT42” was the sixth closest asteroid encounter on record, and triggered a preplanned “Rapid Response Program."
During 2012 IAP, AeroAstro undergraduate students had seven days to redesign (and fly!) commercial, off-the-shelf, remote-controlled aircraft kits.
How might one encourage the deflection of an asteroid headed toward Earth? The answer could be with a volley or two of space-launched paintballs.
MIT alum and physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space, was first a kid with big dreams in Lake City, S.C.
What is the legacy of the Apollo program, and what can we learn from it to help us confront the scientific and engineering challenges of our own time?
The wind Tunnel has proven instrumental in the examination of aerospace, architectural, vehicular, sports and other engineering systems
STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and launched on Dec. 2, 1993.
Scientists from MIT, Brown University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and other institutions have mapped the moon's Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, and found possible evidence for small amounts of ice on the crater's floor.
MIT Professor—and former Navy fighter pilot—Missy Cummings gives a talk at TEDMED 2012.
Aeronautics and astronautics professor discusses how boredom plays a major role in a drone-operators ability to do their job.
A penny-sized rocket thruster, designed by MIT's Paulo Lozano, may soon power the smallest satellites in space.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Robert Seamans Jr. deliver the 1994 AeroAstro Gardener Lecture.
Where other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.
Earth from the International Space Station, as assembled by NASA's Johnson Space Center and MIT's Alex Rivest.
