Recent News

AeroAstro alumni Raja Chari SM '01, Jasmin Moghbeli '05, and Warren “Woody” Hoburg ’08, were among the group of 18 astronauts to form the newly-established Artemis team, which will help tackle the preparations necessary for early moon missions to help establish a modern lunar exploration program. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the moon in 2024, with the ultimate goal of establishing a long-term human presence on the lunar surface by the end of 2029.

Alumna Jin Stedge’13 was named to Forbes 30 under 30: Enterprise Technology for her role cofounding the company True North, a carrier and software service that helps independent truckers manage all aspects of their business, from invoice tracking to fuel and insurance and compliance issues.

MIT’s Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences Sara Seager has been named an officer of the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors as recognition “for her multidisciplinary research that has contributed to transforming the study of extrasolar planets into a full-fledged planetary science.”

Dava Newman SM ’89, SM ’89, PhD ’92, an MIT professor of aeronautics and astronautics whose groundbreaking work has advanced human performance in space with the goal of interplanetary reach, has been named the new director of the MIT Media Lab, effective July 1, 2021.

Our graduate program application deadline is Dec. 15. Hear from our current graduate students about why you belong in AeroAstro.

MIT aerospace engineer Kerri Cahoy designs mini satellites for weather monitoring and space exploration.

Professor Edward Crawley co-authored a book, “Universities as Engines of Economic Development”, with Juan Cristobal Garcia Sanchez SM '20 and others that demonstrates how universities can contribute to economic recovery after Covid-19.

Professor Kerri Cahoy has been honored for her compassion and staunch advocacy for graduate advisees by the “Committed to Caring” (C2C) program, an initiative of the MIT Office of Graduate Education.

Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.