Alan Stern, who led NASA’s New Horizons mission that successfully explored the Pluto system and is now exploring the Kuiper Belt, spoke at Purdue on Oct. 10.

Wesley Stine, a master’s student, is one of 10 finalists in The Mars Society competition to create a 1,000-person Mars colony.

Fourteen astronauts returned to Purdue's campus for a reunion on Oct. 10-12 and spoke with Purdue classes, visited local schools and toured campus.

Trustees ratified the appointment of William Crossley as the J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

A project, titled “Cognitive Autonomy for Human CPS: Turning Novices into Experts," that is co-led by the University of New Mexico and Purdue in collaboration with the University of Colorado and the University of Texas at Austin, is part of a $5.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program.

Murugan Palaniappan (BSAAE '10) was awarded the Young Engineering Alumnus Award at the Purdue Engineering Alumni Association dinner and awards presentation Sept. 27.

Purdue University and Dynetics Inc. have signed a master research agreement for the design, manufacturing, production, testing, research and development of government systems and projects.

Ashwati Das was named by the Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) to the list of outstanding young space and satellite professionals under the age of 35.

Dengfeng Sun, an associate professor, and Joseph Jewell, an assistant professor, are part of the Class of 2020 awardees.

AAE alumni Matt Borg and Ben Linder were part of the Class of 2020 Associate Fellows by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.