BTN's 'Impact' to feature Purdue rocket research tonight
An original Big Ten Network television series showing ways Big Ten universities are improving lives nationwide and worldwide continues tonight (Jan. 24), including a segment about Purdue space rocket research.
The series, titled "Impact the World," has eight 30-minute installments, all hosted by actor Dennis Haysbert. The 24 total segments consist of two from each Big Ten university. Segments will take viewers around the globe to see how research breakthroughs are being put to beneficial use. Each show will debut on a Tuesday and air three more times in the next six days.
This week's installment, the third, airs at 8 p.m. A trailer for this installment is at https://bcove.me/09wgxf9o. This week's show will repeat at 10 p.m. Thursday, 5 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday.
The Purdue research being featured this week is from Project Morpheus, a NASA mission planned to send a lunar lander equipped with robots, a rover and a small lab to the moon to do research. Purdue aerospace engineering students are building an engine -- a rocket thrust chamber -- to land Morpheus on the moon’s surface. The students already have spent a year and a half designing and analyzing their engine and now are building the prototype. They hope to begin testing in May.
Last week's show included a segment about Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Agronomy at Purdue, and his sorghum breakthroughs that won the World Food Prize. More about that and all of the "Impact the World" series is at https://btn.com/shows/impact-the-world. A trailer for the series is at https://bcove.me/r4us0319.
