Alumni Help NASA/SpaceX with Historic Collaboration
UT engineering alumni at NASA recently helped with the launch of this latest stage of the NASA/SpaceX mission.
UT engineering alumni at NASA recently helped with the launch of this latest stage of the NASA/SpaceX mission.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will once again have a presence in space in 2021, as astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore has been bumped up to the flight crew of the inaugural launch of the CST Starliner, NASA’s latest crewed vehicle.
A team of engineering students has been selected to participate in NASA’s Student Launch project.
Through that Apollo 17 mission 45 years ago, geoscientist Lawrence “Larry” Taylor—who would go on to establish UT’s Earth and Planetary Sciences program—formed a longtime friendship and collaboration with astronaut Harrison “Jack” Schmitt that would come to shape the collaboration between the university and NASA.
Former NASA astrophysics director and UT alumnus Frank Martin will deliver a keynote address about team building at the UT Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium on Wednesday, November 2. The symposium and Martin’s visit are sponsored by the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center, Experience Learning, and UT Libraries. Martin’s talk, “Team Building and the NASA
Joshua Fu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, has been instrumental in the study of black carbon.
The College of Engineering’s Distinguished Lecture Series wraps up the spring with a visit from NASA’s Les Johnson.
The future of aircraft propulsion systems could be vastly improved thanks to research being conducted by the College of Engineering. NASA has tapped a joint Boeing-UT project for support, with the agency providing $2 million over four years while the aircraft company contributes a share of funding.
WATE-TV interviewed Jeffrey Moersch, earth and planetary sciences professor, about his research which is laying the groundwork for the next NASA Mars rover mission set for 2020. Visit the WATE-TV website for the story. The Tennessean also featured the professor’s work.
Over the next five years, Jeffrey Moersch will be traveling to faraway places—from the Arctic to the Chilean desert—in a quest to learn more about a place even farther away—Mars. The earth and planetary sciences professor is part of a new NASA-funded research team helping prepare for the Mars 2020 rover mission. The interdisciplinary team
Researchers at UT have made a novel discovery that may potentially protect the world from future collisions with asteroids.
Former NASA astronaut and UT graduate Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr. died on July 17 after an illness. He was eighty years old.