Virgin Galactic has announced the appointment of former NASA executive as Vice President of Operations. Mike Moses, MSAAE'95; OAE'11 will oversee the planning and execution of all operations for the company's commercial suborbital spaceflight program at Spaceport America in New Mexico.

Brian Pomeroy, a graduate student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has received the AIAA Martin Summerfield Propellants and Combustion Graduate Award.

AAE students are part of a team working on a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon. The work is part of the NASA-funded Project Morpheus, which includes research to develop new technologies for future trips to the moon, Mars or asteroids.

Forty-two years after alumnus Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon's surface, a Purdue University professor is part of a NASA lunar mission set to reveal what lies beneath from crust to core.

Nicole Arockiam, BSAAE'11 published in the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research.

Congratulations to AAE Assistant Professor, Karen Marais, for receiving the Louis Stokes Alliance for minority Participation-Indiana at Purdue Outstanding Mentor Award.

William H. Gerstenmaier, a Purdue graduate, has been appointed as Associate Administrator, Human Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate.

Thomas Feldman, a Purdue University graduate student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has received a 2011 Liquid Propulsion Student Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Liquid Propulsion Technical Committee.

Brian Pomeroy, a graduate student in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has received the AIAA Martin Summerfield Propellants and Combustion Graduate Award.