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Get the latest news about the innovative work being done by Purdue researchers and alumni to push space exploration forward, plus learn more about the Boilermakers who were instrumental in the space program’s evolution.

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Purdue family goes all in on astronaut baby names

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Purdue in Space

Purdue’s 29th and 30th members of Cradle of Astronauts  

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All-Boilermaker team to crew Virgin Galactic suborbital mission Purdue 1

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Purdue PhD students send Pakistan’s first experimental payload to ISS

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Purdue announces launch of Neil Armstrong Space Prize

New international award to honor excellence and innovation in scientific achievement, economic opportunity and global security grounded in space discovery
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Space systems degrees program meets the challenge of modern engineering 

Purdue University is standing at the forefront of expanding space exploration and a future economy with the creation of the first-ever Comprehensive Space Engineering Degrees Program in the country.
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Professor Tim Pourpoint holds an injector plate for a rocket engine, made from transparent 3D-printed plastic

NASA

See-Through Rocket Engines

By building transparent engines, students gained a unique, firsthand view of the inner workings behind the rockets often described only in textbooks.
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How Neil Armstrong ‘spawned lots of aerospace engineers’ with one giant leap

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Purdue in Space

Announcing a new global prize for space exploration

Join us July 20 in Washington, D.C., as Purdue University celebrates the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and unveils a new international prize honoring excellence in space exploration. Purdue plans to present the award — designed to stand…
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Space Force partnership opens up new opportunities at Purdue

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Purdue Aeronautics and Astronautics

Helping Firefly stick the (lunar) landing

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David Gallagher named director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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