Georgia Tech aerospace engineering professors Tim Lieuwen and Brian German will be collaborating with researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Howard University on the NASA University Leadership Initiative, to chart the course for commercial hybrid-electric aircraft. The $8 million, four-year project, which officially begins July 2021, will focus on designing a single and a twin-aisle commercial aircraft that can carry 100 passengers or more, which researchers say will be well suited for hybrid propulsion.

NASA has extended the missions of two spacecraft, Juno and Insight, following an external review of their scientific productivity. Paul Steffes, a professor emeritus in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a member of the Juno Mission team. Steffes has received measurements from Juno's microwave radiometer to measure radio waves from the Jupiter's deep atmosphere to determine the composition of the planet and its atmosphere. 

50 years later, two Georgia Tech engineering alumni reflect on their experience in Apollo 13’s mission control

NASA has awarded a $15 million, five-year grant to the HOME Institute (Habitats Optimized for Missions of Exploration), which unites seven higher education institutions — including Georgia Tech — with several industry collaborators in one of NASA’s four Space Technology Research Institutes. The goal of HOME is to develop autonomously functioning habitats known as SmartHab that are essentially self-maintained.

Learn about Georgia Tech's space travel and technological innovations happening at the School of Aerospace Engineering with professor Brian Gunter. Brian Gunter discusses space exploration at Georgia Tech and his small satellite missions that make it possible.

Will we send a man to Mars? We brought together three engineering professors here to weigh in on a few predictions and forecast for the future, including Glenn Lightsey - a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering.