Eyes on the stars
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.
Highlights of Endeavour's fifth flight
Highlights of Endeavour's fifth flight
STS-61 was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission and launched on Dec. 2, 1993.
Guidance from the Outside
Guidance from the Outside
Chair: Steve Robinson Co-Chair: Sasha Efremov Panelists: Judith Burki-Cohen, Jim Lackner, Paul DiZio, John Tylko, Jay Buckey, Conrad Wall
Some Current Student Research
Some Current Student Research
Chair: Aaron Johnson Co-Chair: Torin Clark Panelists: Current MVL Students, introducing their posters to be shown at the reception
The '10s
The '10s
Chair: Jeff Hoffman Co-Chair: Julie Shah Panelists: Roedolph Opperman, Alex Stimpson, Jaime Mateus, Thaddeus Fulford-Jones, Victor Wang
The '60s
The '60s
Chair: Larry Young Co-Chair: Greg Zacharias Panelists: Ken Li or Wendy Spector, Philip Kilpatrick, Lew Nashner, Peter Benjamin, Howard Hermann
The '70s
The '70s
Chair: Chuck Oman Co-Chair: Eli Gai Panelists: Chas Burr, John Tole, Susan Riedel, Elazer Edelman, Sasha Efremov, Bob Renshaw
The '80s
The '80s
Chair: Steve Bussolari Co-Chair: Bob Kenyon Panelists: Mark Kulbaski, Divya Chandra, Keoki Jackson, Mark Shelhamer, Ed Marcus
The '90s
The '90s
Chair: Dava Newman Co-Chair: Dan Merfeld Panelists: Peter Diamandis (video), Ted Liefeld, Chris Carr, Jason Richards, Mindy Gallo Eckman, Erika Wagner, Corinna Lathan
Satellite 'microthrusters'
MIT-designed microthrusters can propel small satellites
A penny-sized rocket thruster, designed by MIT's Paulo Lozano, may soon power the smallest satellites in space.
Mapping the Moon's Shackleton Crater
Mapping the Moon's Shackleton Crater
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.
The Earth as You've Never Seen it Before: Atmosphere, ...
The Earth as You've Never Seen it Before: Atmosphere, Airglow and Aurora
This time-lapse video focuses on the atmospheric line and 'airglow', which is a chemiluminescent process by which the atmosphere gives off its own light. Read more about the science behind 'airglow': http://auroranightglow.blogspot.com/ Video by Alex Rivest, PhD. High ...
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station
Time-lapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station.
The Best View in the Solar System
The Best View in the Solar System
Earth from the International Space Station, as assembled by NASA's Johnson Space Center and MIT's Alex Rivest.
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
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Profile: EAPS Graduate Student Yodit Tewelde
Profile: EAPS Graduate Student Yodit Tewelde
Yodit Tewelde is a graduate student in the Planetary Science Program in EAPS. Childhood planetarium visits and a love of reading science fiction novels, meant Yodit always suspected space or space exploration was somewhere in a her future. In High School, while she ...
Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video ...
Take a Spin on the Centrifuge (MIT Engineering K-12 Video Pilot)
This video uses Man-Vehicle Lab's human centrifuge to discuss centripetal force and countermeasures for astronaut bone and muscle loss in space. It shows the mathematics required to calculate centripetal force, and performs an experiment on the centrifuge with an ...