"Boiler Bytes 6," a 30-minute video news magazine produced by Purdue, will premiere on the Big Ten Network at 10 a.m. Thursday (Dec. 24).

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics was sad to hear of the passing of Professor Emeritus John Robert "Bob" Osborn, 85, who passed away on Friday, December 18, 2009 in Lafayette, IN.

NASA has selected an experiment for flight testing in June 2010 from Prof. Collicott's AAE418 class. This makes the 43rd team to be accepted to fly in NASA's KC-135 aircraft, known as the Vomit Comet, with one or more teams every year selected since the program began in 1996.

Purdue Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Karen Marais will be speaking at the US center at the Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen as co-lead investigator for PARTNER Project 32, Near-term Operational Changes.

Professor Emeritus George Palmer Honored

Two more Purdue alumni, Janice Voss and Roy Bridges Jr. have donated personal papers to the Purdue Libraries Division of Archives and Special Collections.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics hosted the 14th annual Purdue Space Day which took place on Saturday November 7th, 2010 with astronaut Michael J. McCulley as guest VIP

The Purdue University designation Outstanding Aerospace Engineer recognizes the professional contributions of graduates from the School of Aeronautics & Astronautics and thanks them for the recognition that their success brings to Purdue and the School.

Blue Origin selected Professor Collicott's Three-Dimensional Critical Wetting Experiment in Microgravity as one of three unmanned research payloads to fly on the New Shepard suborbital vehicle as a part of Phase 1 of the New Shepard Research Flight Demonstration Program.