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The Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences is honoring eight alumni for outstanding contributions to industry, for technical achievement, and public service.��The 2026 AeroBuffs Club Alumni Academy inductees are being

On January 28, 1986, NASA’s Challenger space shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after launching from the Kennedy Space Center. All seven crew members aboard, including ���Ҵ�ý�ƽ������ alumnus Ellison Onizuka (AeroEngr ’69), tragically lost their lives.

David Klaus has built a career centered around the science and engineering of human spaceflight as a systems engineer, researcher and educator. After four decades on the leading edge, he is embarking on his next challenge:

Louis Stodieck remembers the first time he saw a space shuttle blast off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In April 1991, Stodieck, an aerospace engineer, was the associate director of BioServe Space Technologies, a research center at the

David Klaus is featured in a new Discover Magazine article.��The feature discusses unique and similar risks to exploring deep space and the ocean floor here on Earth.��Klaus, a professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead

On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stepped out a lunar lander onto the surface of the moon. The landscape in front of him, which was made up of stark blacks and grays, resembled what he later called “magnificent desolation.”

The College of Engineering and Applied Science at ���Ҵ�ý�ƽ������ is part of a new NASA funded Space Technology Research Institute that will advance space habitat designs using resilient and autonomous systems. The work is part of a larger effort to