Legendary "space statesman" Buzz Aldrin is a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11--and as an aerospace engineer...
Humans 2 Mars 2015 - May 5, 2015 ...
Famed astronaut Buzz Aldrin speaks to Purdue University students Thursday, April 23, 2015 in Fowler Hall. Fifty-one Purdue University students in a senior spacecraft design class this year compiled a report numbering more than 1,000 pages, detailing the resources necessary and the steps that should...
There are a couple different types of pull that are critical to a Mars travel project a group of Purdue aeronautics students is crafting. One is gravitational – tugging spacecraft in a continuous elliptical orbit around the sun so they don’t have to be wastefully...
A Purdue University study has laid out a plan for human settlement of the Red Planet. The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics AAE 450 Senior Spacecraft Design class at Purdue University held its final presentation on this plan, Thursday, April 23, 2015. The study itself – over...