AAE courtesy faculty Steven Son noted that the ALICE propellant can be improved to become a potential solid rocket propellant on Earth. On the Moon or Mars, ALICE can be manufactured in place instead of being transported at a large cost.

Mementos, artifacts and personal papers from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni will be on display until Oct. 30 as the university celebrates its rich space heritage and the 40th anniversary of the historic first walk on the moon.

Professor Steven Collicott has been named to the Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG). He is one of only ten members of this group.

The NASA Aeronautics Student competition required students to propose ideas or design concepts for a commercial transport that can fly faster than the speed of sound over land or water.

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics undergraduate program ranking for this year remains at its all time high of #4.

Leah H. Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, Purdue University, announced that Tom I-P. Shih, currently Professor and Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University, will become the next head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics effective August 17, 2009.

Purdue alumni Mark Polansky and David Wolf, who are currently on the shuttle Endeavour's mission to the international space station, provided a video message for the NASA celebration of the Apollo program on Monday (July 20).

On July 20, 1969, Purdue alumnus Neil Armstrong took his famous "small step" into history as the first human to set foot on the moon.

On May 8 2009, the test facility for the Wave Rotor Combustor Rig (WRCR) was opened at the Maurice Zucrow Laboratories in the Annex of the High Pressure Laboratory (HPL). "We obtained valuable data from the initial test operation," says Dr. Shimo.

AAE is pleased to announce that Professor Kathleen C. Howell has agreed to serve as Interim Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The search committee continues to make good progress and looks forward to a successful conclusion of the search in the near future.