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Record-breaking Daedalus project marks 20th anniversaryTwenty years ago, on April 23, 1988, a team of MIT students, faculty and alumni succeeded in a project to fly a lightweight airplane --completely under human power-- across the Mediterranean, setting aviation records that still stand today. April 22, 2008 MIT aims to search for Earth-like planetsMIT scientists, with Google's help, are designing a satellite-based observatory that could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. March 19, 2008 'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in wind tunnelMIT Senior Technical Instructor Dick Perdichizzi prepares a lifesize model of a prehistoric four-winged bird-like creature for testing in Aero-Astro's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. March 6, 2008 The next-best thing to being on MarsTwo MIT students are currently living, working and communicating with the outside world as if they were on a mission to Mars. Whenever they go outside their small, round habitat, they don spacesuits and pass through an airlock. February 25, 2008 Down to earth: Alumnus returns from space stationDaniel Tani SB '84, SM '88 returned to the Kennedy Space Center aboard space shuttle Atlantis on Feb. 20. Tani spent 120 days in orbit aboard the International Space Station as a member of the Expedition 16 crew. February 22, 2008 MIT to lead development of new moon telescopesNASA has selected a proposal by an MIT-led team to develop plans for an array of radio telescopes on the far side of the moon that would probe the so-called "Dark Ages," the earliest formation of the basic structures of the universe. February 15, 2008 Mercury rising: New images draw interestProfessor Maria Zuber, head of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, addresses a Jan. 30 NASA press conference in which results from the first mission to visit the planet Mercury in 30 years were unveiled. February 1, 2008 Waitz to lead aero-astro departmentIan Waitz, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, has been named the next head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, effective February 16. January 11, 2008 |
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