Briony Horgan, who holds a courtesy appointment in AAE, offers a one-year update on the Mars rover mission.

John P. Sullivan, professor emeritus and former head of the Purdue School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has won the J. Leland Atwood Award. It is given annually by ASEE and AIAA, honoring an outstanding aerospace engineering educator for their contributions to the profession.

Alumni Deepak Atyam and Alex Finch were recognized by the magazine for their impact on industry.

Faculty, lecturers and other staff who received teaching evaluation scores of 4.7 or higher in undergraduate or graduate classes with enrollments of 10 or more and 50 percent or higher response rates made the list.

Amy Comeau (BSAAE '18) was one of four Boeing Space and Launch employees to receive the award that recognizes employees who are in the early stages of their career. Comeau is from the Commercial Crew Program.

Nicole Key (BSAAE '00) will join the council as part of the Aeronautics Committee.

Steven Collicott was selected to receive an award by NASA's Flight Opportunities program giving him the chance to fly into suborbital space and back on a Virgin Galactic craft while conducting a zero-gravity experiment.

In July 2021, Bandla was one of four mission specialists on Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 suborbital flight.

AAE Professors Kathleen Howell and Carolin Frueh are working on a U.S. Air Force contract to develop software that is, essentially, a space dashboard, a 3D space situational awareness portal to track objects and analyze data.

In a paper published to Frontiers in Energy Research, AAE researchers have analyzed a significant amount of data to help try and answer one key question: How much could SAF actually reduce commercial aviation’s CO2 emissions by the middle of this century?