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Three MIT Alumni Graduate From NASA Astronaut Training

March 8, 2024

Marcos Berríos ’06, Christina Birch PhD ’15, and Christopher Williams PhD ’12, now eligible for spaceflight assignments, encourage MIT students to apply for the next astronaut class. Sandi Miller | Department of…

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With Psyche, A Journey To An Ancient Asteroid Is Set To Begin

October 13, 2023

The NASA mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own.…

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The Speculative Promise and Peril of Hyperintelligent Minds

July 11, 2023

Hyperintelligent entities, if they exist or will exist, could conceivably solve problems and generate insights that are currently beyond human comprehension. When we expand this concept beyond Earth, we delve…

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Space Exploration Is Still The Brightest Hope-Bringer We Have

May 27, 2020

I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. My great-grandfather was a slave in Claiborne, Alabama, who…

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Space Exploration Is Still The Brightest Hope-Bringer We Have

May 27, 2020

I am one of the few African-American aerospace engineers who helped design the Apollo spaceships that took men to the Moon. My great-grandfather was a slave in Claiborne, Alabama, who…

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NASA’s Plan To Build A Base Camp On The Moon Sounds Like Sci-Fi, But It’s Real

May 25, 2020

If we’re ever going to make Elon Musk’s vision of colonizing Mars a reality, we first need to figure out an essential component of the plan: how to get there.…

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The Dream Of Living On Other Worlds

July 15, 2019

The idea of living on the Moon, Mars or an even more distant planet has long captured our imagination. When facts are in short supply, fiction thrives – but science…

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Would Your Mobile Phone Be Powerful Enough To Get You To The Moon?

July 3, 2019

Many people who are old enough to have experienced the first moon landing will vividly remember what it was like watching Neil Armstrong utter his famous quote: “That’s one small…

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