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	NASA's William Gerstenmaier Honored with National Space Trophy The Board of Advisors of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation has selected NASA Associate Administrator for Space Operations, William (Bill) H. Gerstenmaier (pictured), as the recipient of the 2010 National Space Trophy.
	AAE 418 "Vomit Comet" Features on Big Ten Network "Boiler Bytes 6," a 30-minute video news magazine produced by Purdue, will premiere on the Big Ten Network at 10 a.m. Thursday (Dec. 24).
	Prof. Emeritus John Robert Osborne - Obituary The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics was sad to hear of the passing of Professor Emeritus John Robert "Bob" Osborn, 85, who passed away on Friday, December 18, 2009 in Lafayette, IN.
	AAE Students participate in NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program NASA has selected an experiment for flight testing in June 2010 from Prof. Collicott's AAE418 class. This makes the 43rd team to be accepted to fly in NASA's KC-135 aircraft, known as the Vomit Comet, with one or more teams every year selected since the program began in 1996.
	AAE Professor to Speak at first US Center at the Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen Purdue Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Karen Marais will be speaking at the US center at the Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen as co-lead investigator for PARTNER Project 32, Near-term Operational Changes.

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