article | Experience
Grad student grateful for mentors’ role in her all-Purdue spaceflight
Graduate student Abigail Mizzi is preparing to make history on the Purdue 1 spaceflight.
Achieving dreams, from three Purdue degrees to NASA missions
Emily Spreen doesn’t have one of the most interesting roles in aerospace — she has two.
article | Research
Steven Collicott’s Purdue 1 challenge: Don’t look out the window
Steven Collicott’s goal on the Purdue 1 flight is to “justify the presence of the person.”
Purdue alums waiting to help Artemis astronauts return home safely
The Landing and Recovery Operations team spent years preparing for Artemis II splashdown.
Remembering an American hero: Purdue’s first astronaut, Gus Grissom
Purdue astronaut Gus Grissom would have celebrated his 100th birthday on April 3, 2026.
video
Purdue University is the Cradle of Astronauts®
video | Experience
How Purdue astronaut Neil Armstrong’s giant leap still inspires us today
How Neil Armstrong ‘spawned lots of aerospace engineers’ with one giant leap
Only a few events are so important that all of humanity uses them to mark time.
Identical twin alumnae help Blue Origin, New Glenn shoot for the stars
The thrill of the New Glenn launch was nothing new for sisters Dayle and Claire Alexander.
podcast | Education
Podcast Ep. 119: ‘Boilers to Mars’ Film Premiere Panel with Former NASA Astronaut Drew Feustel, Purdue Professors Briony Horgan and Marshall Porterfield, and SpaceKids Global Founders Marc and Sharon Hagle
article | Education
NASA astronauts and industry specialists prepare Purdue students
Mentors in the Leading Women Toward Space Careers program advise on lifelong success.
Boilers to Mars
