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.
Future of Human Spaceflight: The Augustine Report
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 ...
Giant Leaps
Giant Leaps: The Legacy of the Apollo Program
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?
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
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.
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.
MIT students send a balloon to near space for $150
MIT students send a balloon to near space for $150
Two students sent a camera-dangling balloon to near space and took stunning photography of Earth: all for $150.
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.
Plasma rocket
Plasma rocket
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
Plasma Rocket (coke bottle)
Plasma Rocket (coke bottle)
The testing of a prototype plasma rocket being developed at MIT that is much smaller than other rockets of its kind.
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 ...
Sampling MIT at the MIT Museum: The Future of Human ...
Sampling MIT at the MIT Museum: The Future of Human Spaceflight
Research by the MIT Space Policy and Society group has the possibility of shaping the most important human space policy decisions in a generation. On view in this exhibit is the space suit designed by Professor Dava Newman, as well as other artifacts relating to ...
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
Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off
Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off
The youngest of the space shuttles blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 8:56 AM EDT on May 16. It is headed to the International Space Station for its final 16-day mission.
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
Spheres: Zero Robotics Competition Awards
Recorded on 1/23/12
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 ...
