Congratulations to Michael Bociaga who won First place in the STK Expert Category: Land/Sea/Air of the 2011 AGI University Grant Competition.

After 34 years of research and development, 10 years of flight preparation, a 1.5 year flight mission and 5 years of data analysis, NASA’s Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s 1916 general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test. The findings are online in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Purdue President, France Córdova signed an agreement with Beihang University President Huai Jinpeng to form the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Energy Systems and the BUAA-Purdue Joint Laboratory on Low Emissions Combustion. Beihang University also is known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

For 30 years Purdue University has been ubiquitous with the space shuttle program.
More than a third of all shuttle flights have carried a Boilermaker.
But it's all coming to an end.

After 30 years, 135 launches and the completion of goals once only dreamed about, NASA's space shuttle program is coming to a close with no immediate replacement in sight.

Professor Terry A. Weisshaar is retiring from a 41 year career in academia and government where his career included positions at three major universities.

Congratulations to Cody Short for winning 1st place in the Research Symposium Series, along with 2nd place – David Kittell, 3rd place – Matthew Wierman, and Best Abstract – Jimmy Chiu.

After eight months of work on the Blue Ribbon, a 12 foot 6 inch diameter rocket to travel one mile in the sky, the Purdue Ballistic Rocketeers set off to NASA Marshall in Huntsville, AL for NASA's University Student Launch Initiative rocket competition.