NASA

  • Vanderbilt University

    Former NASA leader to deliver Hall Lecture Sept. 24

    Michael D. Griffin, a former administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will give the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture – Challenges Facing the U.S. Civil Space Program – at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, in Featheringill Hall’s Jacobs Believed in Me Auditorium. Griffin served… Read More

    Sep. 1, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Aerospace Club among 20 teams picked by NASA for April ‘launch initiative’

    Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club is among 20 student teams selected by NASA from colleges and universities around the country to participate in NASA’s 2008-2009 University Student Launch Initiative April 18. The annual rocketry challenge will be held April 18 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Student teams… Read More

    Feb. 23, 2009

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vandy Aerospace Club gets big lift from launch win

          Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club recently won a prestigious altitude contest when its rocket reached a height of 5,264 feet at a launch contest held in late April at a north Alabama farm. “The corn growing in that field will never taste as sweet as the success of… Read More

    Jun. 2, 2008