AAE Professor James Longuski Continues Collaboration with Dr. Buzz Aldrin

As part of an ongoing collaboration known as Project Aldrin-Purdue, AAE Professor James Longuski’s senior design course will once again be evaluating Gemini and Apollo astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin’s plan to establish permanent human presence on Mars by 2040.

As part of an ongoing collaboration known as Project Aldrin-Purdue, AAE Professor James Longuski’s senior design course will once again be evaluating Gemini and Apollo astronaut Dr. Buzz Aldrin’s plan to establish permanent human presence on Mars by 2040. Dr. Aldrin visited the AAE 450 class on January 14th to talk about his Cycling Pathways to Occupy Mars plan. While on campus, Dr. Aldrin also met with Professor Longuski’s Advanced Astrodynamics Concepts research group and spoke to AAE Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia’s Spacecraft Engineering Mission Design class. Dr. Aldrin is expected to return to Purdue in April 2015 to attend the formal presentations of the AAE 450 students’ final projects.

Photo of Advanced Astrodynamics Concepts research group (top, left to right): Peter Edelman, Alec Mudek, Kyle Hughes, Dr. Buzz Aldrin, Robert Potter, Professor James Longuski, Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia

Photo (bottom): Dr. Aldrin with students from Professor Longuski’s AAE 450 senior design course.

Photos were taken in the Herman & Heddy Kurz Atrium of the Neil A. Armstrong Hall of Engineering.