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Team JARVIS: The Next Giant Leap in Spacesuits

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Astronauts join 50,000 eclipse fans at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Purdue University, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and NASA presented a special viewing event at the iconic Indianapolis racetrack, where more than 50,000 attendees — including five Boilermaker astronauts — watched the total solar eclipse.

The Persistent Pursuit

Navy veteran John Waggle wants to be the first astronaut from Purdue University in Indianapolis

In 4th grade, he dressed up as Gus Grissom (BSME ’50). Now, after a career in the Navy and as a mountain guide, John Waggle is living his dream with a NASA internship while he works on his mechanical engineering…

Prof. Brandon Johnson

Purdue News

Icy Impacts

Planetary scientists use physics and images of impact craters to gauge the thickness of ice on Europa

Roha Gul, a graduate student in autonomy and control with a focus in astrodynamics and space applications, joined Leading Women Toward Space Careers to learn and network. In this picture, she stands in the atrium of Armstrong Hall with the lunar capsule model in the background.

The Persistent Pursuit

Women’s space program establishes a confident community

Students form ties to peers, industry leaders and astronauts in the only college organization of its kind

Purdue students and faculty member Jim Garrison stand with the SNOOPI cubesat mounted to a wooden stand.

Purdue Aeronautics and Astronautics

Cubesat will test new method for studying the water cycle

This NASA mission, led by Purdue, will prove out a new way to study moisture levels, which can help predict droughts, floods, and crop yields.

Mars rendering space suits image

Purdue Computer Science

JARVIS inspires giant leap in spacesuit user interface

Purdue University’s JARVIS team was recently named one of the 11 finalists in NASA’s Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) challenge. Their mission: design user interfaces, software for spacesuits, and, a mission control console for use on the surface…

Purdue College of Engineering News

Helping Dragonfly survive NASA’s mission to Titan

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is rich with organic substances and may contain clues to the chemical beginnings of life. NASA is planning to send a first-of-its-kind rotorcraft lander called Dragonfly to explore Titan’s unique surface, and Purdue University researchers are…

The Persistent Pursuit

Purdue analog astronauts travel to ‘Mars’

Boilermakers given rare opportunity to send two crews on back-to-back Mars Desert Research Station missions

Aerogram Magazine

Planning highways to the Moon

With $4.5 million in USAF funding, a Purdue-led project will build trajectory design tools for future trips to and from the moon

Aerogram Magazine

A Propulsion Revolution

Purdue researchers are leading in study and design of 3D-printed rotating detonation rocket engines, which could transform spacecraft and hypersonic vehicles

Aerogram Magazine

An aerospace titan rooted in the Midwest

When Julie Kramer White arrived at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for her co-op, she explained to people that Purdue was in Indiana — and got an eye-opening surprise: “One of the senior engineers pulled me aside and said, ’We know…