"Landing on the Moon" (1966) - Science Reporter TV Series

This 1966 "Science Reporter" television program details the development and construction of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), the only vehicle of the three Apollo spacecraft modules that actually lands on the moon. Project engineer Thomas Kelly gives a tour of the LEM ...

Apollo 11 Launch (1969) - Alexander P. de Seversky

This short home movie taken by Major Alexander P. de Seversky, the Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor, shows a personal view of the APOLLO 11 launch and the attending audience. MIT Museum Collections. [T27854]

Apollo: Reflections and Lessons

06/11/2009 9:30 AM KresgeDr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, former Space Shuttle astronaut, Professor of the Practice, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT ; Dr. Richard Battin, '45, PhD '51, Director of Apollo guidance, navigation and control system, Senior Lecturer, MIT ; Dr. Aaron Cohen, ...

Astronaut/alum Cady Coleman tour of the International Space Station

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.

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Claude Canizares Chandra X-ray Observatory

Since its launch in 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories." Claude Canizares, MIT's Vice President for Research and Associate Provost and Bruno Rossi Professor of ...

Eyes on the stars: The story of alum/astronaut Ronald McNair

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.

Final Journey to the Hubble Space Telescope

10/28/2009 4:00 PM Killian Hall 14W"111Mike Massimino, SM'88, ME'90, PHD,92Description: Astronaut Mike Massimino returns to MIT and shares his experience on the Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS"125). Topics include the challenges of space walking while repairing the ...

Future of Human Spaceflight: The Augustine Report

In June 2009, NASA created the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee and charged it with conducting "an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives, to ensure the Nation is pursuing the best trajectory ...

Highlights of Endeavour's fifth flight

STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and launched on Dec. 2, 1993.

Humans in Space

12/08/2009 6:00 PM MuseumDava Newman, Sm '89, PhD '92, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering SystemsDescription: The future of space exploration is "the Moon, Mars, and beyond." For the human scientist"astronaut, "the issue is one of location and locale," according to Dava ...

Interplanetary Space Logistics: Enabling New Frontiers

NASA is returning to the Moon by 2020 as a stepping stone for the human exploration of Mars. Human space exploration will no longer be viewed as a set of isolated missions, but rather as an integrated supply chain in space. As part of a NASA-funded project, MIT, ...

Investments in our Future: Exploring Space through Innovation and ...

04/20/2011 4:00 PM 26"100Dr. Robert D. Braun, Chief Technologist, NASADescription: "I don't remember Apollo at all," confesses Robert Braun, NASA's chief technologist. "I feel really bad about it." Nevertheless, he has spent a lot of time reading and thinking about ...

Kepler Observatory: Magnified Light Curve

The sensitive instruments on the orbital Kepler Observatory show a smooth rise and fall of the light between transits caused by the changing phases of the planet, similar to those of our moon. This is a combination of both the light emitted from the planet and the ...

Killian Lecture: The Early History of the Moon

In the 41st annual Killian Lecture, Maria Zuber describes looking deep into the moon’s interior to chart its early history.