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.

Michael Grant graduated first in his class with an aero engineering degree from Purdue in 2005. Now a grad student at Georgia Tech, he focuses on coming up with ways in which a spacecraft can descend more gently once it bursts into a planet's atmosphere.

Purdue University was looking to find the next Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin with the annual Space Day program on campus!

Join us on Thursday, November 12, for a fascinating presentation on the Curtiss-Wright Cadettes, a group of more than 900 women trained as aeronautical engineers at seven different universities from 1943-44. Three hundred of the Cadettes were trained here at Purdue.

Daniel Grebow was selected, as one of only ten graduate students nationwide, as a NASA student representative to the 2009 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Daejeon, South Korea.

Purdue alumnus Michael McCulley will speak on campus Nov. 6 about his time as an astronaut. McCulley's 8 p.m. talk in Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry, Room 200, is free and open to the public but seating is limited. He will also participate in Purdue's annual Space Day on Nov. 7.

Janice Voss and Roy Bridges Jr. will donate personal papers to the Purdue Libraries Division of Archives and Special Collections. The papers will join those of astronaut alumni Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and Eugene Cernan, the most recent person to do so.