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May 21, 2012

Winners of the 2012 Unified Engineering (16.003/004) Flying Competition.

April 20, 2012

AeroAstroers' study links UK air pollution, premature deaths.

March 2, 2012

Professor Missy Cummings’ virtual representation of an aircraft carrier partners human and computer abilities to orchestrate the complex movements on deck.

January 12, 2012

How did we navigate to the moon with such precision?

January 10, 2012

Over this speed, birds – and drones – crash.

December 19, 2011

Alum astronauts wish MIT a happy 150 anniversary from space

November 28, 2011

Nick Roy's robots are ideal for dangerous and covert tasks

July 5, 2011

AeroAstro students will build imaging instrument to fly aboard asteriod mission

Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office

The asteroid 1999 RQ36 may not be a household name, but astronomers predict that in less than 200 years, it may make an unforgettable impact. According to radar and optical observations, the space rock, measuring some five football fields in diameter, has a 1 in 1,000 chance of crashing into Earth in the year 2182.

May 30, 2010

For 40 years, MITers, including 27 alumni-astronauts, played key roles in the Shuttle program

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