Faculty & Research

MIT Aero-Astro is home to some of the world's leading aerospace teachers and researchers Our community includes a former space shuttle astronaut, a former secretary of the Air Force, two former NASA associate administrators, three former Air Force chief scientists, 13 members of the National Academy of Engineering and 14 fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Our research and teaching range from silent aircraft, to shirt button-size gas turbine engines; to highly flexible space suits woven skin-tight on their inhabitants; to unmanned aerial vehicles capable of complex maneuvers without human intervention; to constellations of tiny satellites that in concert far outperform the single, large satellites of the past; to the development of ultra-wide bandwidth communications. These projects will make our environment cleaner and quieter; improve our health and safety; increase our mobility; heighten our efficiency; enable us to explore frontiers far beyond our current limitations.

You're invited to learn more about our research labs, our faculty, and the Aero-Astro sectors with which they're aligned.