http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/aeronautics.html Aeronautical / astronautical engineering headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/aeronautics.html 88 31 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/daedalus-0422.html Twenty 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. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/daedalus-0422.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-planets-tt0319.html MIT 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. Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/google-planets-tt0319.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/prehistoric-0306.html MIT 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. Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/prehistoric-0306.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/mars-desert-0225.html Two 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. Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/mars-desert-0225.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/space-tani-0222.html Daniel 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. Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/space-tani-0222.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/moonscope-0215.html NASA 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. Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/moonscope-0215.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/zuber-mercury-0201.html Professor 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. Fri, 1 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/zuber-mercury-0201.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/waitz-0111.html Ian 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. Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/waitz-0111.html