Karen Marais, an associate professor in AAE, is part of Purdue's multidisciplinary team for the new Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute. Shirley Dyke, a professor of mechanical and civil engineering, is principal investigator.

Purdue AAE students participated in the Boeing AerosPACE program, a multi-disciplinary, multi-university collaborative capstone. Purdue was one of seven universities included 64 students.

The 3U CubeSat is scheduled to launch April 17 on the S.S. Roger Chaffee, Northrop Grumman's recently renamed NG-11 Cygnus spacecraft. Chaffee was an AAE alum.

AAE400,"Senior Seminar," consistently offers lectures by distinguished alumni and industry and government professionals. Tom Shih, J. William Uhrig and Anastasia Vournas Head and Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, teaches the course.

Caroline Kren, a junior in AAE, was one of four Purdue students awarded the Amelia Earhart Scholarship.

The Purdue Space Program Student Launch team was one of 45 college teams that competed in NASA’s Student Launch competition in early April at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. It launched its vehicle 4,403 feet.

As part of the inaugural Neil Armstrong Distinguished Visiting Fellow program, AAE alumnus Paul Bevilaqua gave a three-day short course, “Introduction to V/STOL Theory and Practice,” participated in the Industrial Advisory Council’s ethics panel, and met with faculty and students.

For the first time, a large group of AAE students attended Congressional Visits Day on March 20 in Washington D.C.

A new propellant formulation method to use graphene foams to power spacecraft is being developed in Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories and led by Li Qiao, an associate professor in AAE.

Beth Moses became the first woman to fly to space on a commercial spaceship when Virgin Galactic's February 22nd test flight saw the three-person crew rocket into space at more than three times the speed of sound.