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.
Aeronautics & Astronautics students participated in the 2008 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competion and put together this video to share their experience. Fortunately the vehicle was not weighed down by its name.
An IAP Lecture presented by Professor Richard Battin, January 22, 2009, discussing America's space program and race to the moon.
AeroAstro Department Senior Technical Instructor discusses lab and shop safety rules and procedures. Recorded in May 2009.
The 2010 Unified Flight Competition was held on May 12 with 13 teams successfully completing flights. The objective of this year's competition was to design, build, and fly two circuits around the Johnson track a radio-controlled aircraft while maximizing the ...
MultiUAV Search and Track, video made in August 2006.
What is weightlessness? How do astronauts train for it? How can we simulate it on Earth? Understand weightlessness through the eyes of Astronaut Dan Burbank and the experiments of grad students in Aero Astro.
Nothing could stop Mike Fincke (MIT '89) from joining his 15th reunion ... not even a 200-mile-high earth orbit.
Astronaut/MIT alum Catherine "Cady" Coleman takes us on a video tour of the International Space Station as part of the MIT 150 anniversary celebration.
New algorithms allow an autonomous robotic plane to dodge obstacles in a subterranean parking garage, without the use of GPS.
Raymond Blisplinghoff (1917-1985) chaired the FAA commitee that investigated the May 1979 crash of an AA DC10 at O'Hare, killing all aboard. In this video shot at MIT in the early 1980s, he discusses the accident and its relevance to aircraft maintenance and technology. Blisplinghoff was a ...
On February 12, 2010, the MIT 2012 Class Ring (aka "Brass Rat") was unveiled in a special presentation at Kresge Auditorium. The high point of the presentation was a surprise pre-recorded video, sent from MIT alum astronaut TJ Creamer aboard the International Space Station. In the video, ...
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."
Demonstration of two-beam interference in a Michelson interferometer with collimated beams Demonstration of fringe contrast with path length difference for a single-frequency laser light source Demonstration of fringe contrast with path length difference for two- and three-frequency laser ...
