Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
January 22, 2020
MIT AeroAstro students, faculty, and staff share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies that enable them, and the missions they…
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Astronauts Facts for Kids
December 21, 2019
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person who goes into outer space. The Soviet Union and countries that it was friends with used the word cosmonaut…
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Scott Glenn astronaut
October 26, 2019
On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth when he successfully completed three…
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Aztec Astronaut
August 15, 2019
A God and His Secret Number My conclusion that the Olmec presence in the New World went back at least 5, years, to circa 3 B.C., was reached…
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Aeronautical Scientist
February 24, 2019
Aeronautics (from the ancient Greek words ὰήρ āēr, which means air , and ναυτική nautikē which means navigation , i.e. navigation of the air…
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Name of astronauts
February 24, 2019
Wanted: a mission name for astronaut Thomas ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly to the International Space Station next year on a six-month…
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Animated Astronaut
November 12, 2012
Today, Google is celebrating the 64th birth anniversary of American physicist and astronaut Sally Ride with an animated Google Doodle. She worked…
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