The Purdue 1 crew is eager to see what these future Boilermakers will write!
🚀 Launching the Purdue 1 Indiana Essay Competition!
Purdue University invites Hoosier fifth graders to explore how they could use a favorite school subject, hobby or skill to help a space mission crew succeed. One winning essay will be chosen from each of Indiana's 92 counties, and every county winner receives a personalized Purdue 1 Indiana mission patch.
If mission conditions allow, winners' names will even travel to space aboard Purdue 1, the university's upcoming all-Boilermaker suborbital research spaceflight!
Submissions open today and run through Nov. 30. Learn more: bit.ly/4rMkXzZ
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🏅 Surrounded by members of the Neil Armstrong family, Purdue Cradle of Astronauts, Purdue leadership and @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman, the @SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team received the 2026 Neil Armstrong Space Prize during a ceremony in the nation’s capital tonight. ⭐️
ALT A group of elegantly dressed people posing on a stage at the Armstrong Space Prize event, flanked by a seated audience. Several items are displayed on a table.
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👩🚀 Graduate student Abigail Mizzi is ready to conduct research aboard the Purdue 1 spaceflight — but she needs your help to get there!
Make a gravity-defying impact with a gift of $50 or more, and receive a Purdue 1 pin: purdue.university/4xkRiQE 🚀
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Meet the Purdue1 Crew! We are honored to have been selected for this university-chartered spaceflight in 2027. Our all-Boilermaker team will engage the Purdue community and conduct research.
L-R: Abby Mizzi, Steven Collicott, me, Jason Williamson, Flo Stahura.
🖤💛🚀💛🖤
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#NationalSpaceDay is a moment to reflect on how far exploration has taken us — and where we can go next. Purdue 1 represents the next chapter, uniting Boilermakers to advance groundbreaking space research.
Make a gift today and be part of the incredible work shaping Purdue’s future in space. purdue.university/4cAzPKA
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At a moment of renewed global ambition in space, the Neil Armstrong Space Prize will inspire the next generation of astronauts, engineers and space innovators to pursue the giant leaps still ahead.
Tomorrow, Purdue Engineering will announce the inaugural award winner. Watch the full video: bit.ly/4dYbC3o
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Announcing the fourth and fifth — and final — Purdue 1 crew members! 🚀
Veteran commercial astronaut @Astro_Beth, a @PurdueAeroAstro alumna, and Florence Stahura, a graduate of @PurdueScience, will join the five-person, all-Boilermaker suborbital flight that will include real-time research onboard a @virgingalactic spacecraft.
Professor @CollicottSteven, graduate student Abigail Mizzi and @PurdueCCE alumnus Jason Williamson round out the Purdue 1 crew, which came together for the first time during an event today at Armstrong Hall.
More about the flight participants and the mission's groundbreaking experiments: bit.ly/4teu7oH
ALT The five-person Purdue 1 crew poses together on stage at the crew announcement event in Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. From left to right: Steven Collicott, professor of aerospace engineering; Jason Williamson, Purdue alumnus; Abby Mizzi, Purdue aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate student; Beth Moses, veteran astronaut and associate professor of engineering practice; and Florence Stivarga, research scientist at AWS. All five wear matching black Purdue 1 "Crew" polo shirts and smile in front of a dark curtain backdrop with fern plants at the base of the stage.
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Virgin Galactic is at the University of Central Florida (@UCF) for The Economist Space Economy Summit to meet with industry leaders from around the globe. See you there! #EconSpace
Was a beautiful flight today!
Prof. @CollicottSteven's rotational slosh experiment is about to launch on the final flight of VSS Unity!
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One research payload is from @PurdueAeroAstro / Steven Collicott as PI.
Virgin Galactic’s spaceship will once again be converted into a suborbital science lab. Get to know the science heading to space on the #Galactic07 mission. → bit.ly/G07-Research-Payloads
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Today’s #NS24 mission stats:
🚀 Crew capsule apogee: 347,601 ft. AGL / 351,248 ft. MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
🚀 Booster apogee: 347,208 ft. AGL / 350,855 ft. MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
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Steven Collicott, @PurdueAeroAstro professor, has an experiment on board built by the AAE418 “Zero-gravity Flight Experiment” class. The “2D-Slosh” experiment ran for several years in AAE418, and several dozens of students who are now #alumni worked on it, Collicott said.
#NS24 is targeting lift off tomorrow at 8:30 AM CST / 14:30 UTC. Webcast begins T-20 minutes on BlueOrigin.com. 🚀
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The 'Galactic 05' flight window opens on Thursday, November 2, 2023. This research mission will be the 6th spaceflight in 6 months. Details → bit.ly/G05-Research-Announce… #Galactic05
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VSS Unity is now on its way home to Spaceport America, New Mexico. #Unity25
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“I never would have imagined I’d get to speak to one of my biggest role models.”
As part of a new story + video series, “Engineering Heroes,” #PurdueEngineering facilitated a meeting with @PurdueAeroAstro student @ThendralKamal and AAE alumna and commercial astronaut @SirishaBandla.
For more on the meeting, the conversation and the women, check out the full story and video: bit.ly/Heroes-BandlaKamal
ALT Student Thendral Kamal and alumna Sirisha Bandla standing in front of ARMS
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Shout out to @HigherOrbits and #PurdueAAE Prof. @CollicottSteven, who collaborated with middle-school students in New Albany, Indiana to send their experiments to space!
higherorbits.org/press-relea…
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Here is an updated list of speakers at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC)!
Including @CommanderMLA as opening keynote, @SirishaBandla, @astroaddie, @AlanStern, conference organizer, and many more! Come join us on Feb 27 - March 1. Registrations open!
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Join us for a keynote by @astroaddie Addie Dove, Chair of the @csf_spaceflight’s Suborbital Applications Researchers Group (SARG) and Assistant Professor at @UCF, at NSRC-2023.
Register now for NSRC-2023 in Broomfield, Colorado, Feb 27 - March 1. nsrc.boulder.swri.edu
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So thrilled to have the opportunity to share about this life-changing experience and the out of this world mentorship of Professor @CollicottSteven next week at @ascendspace! #SpaceInspires #ThrowbackThurday @aiaa
#ThrowbackThursday to the 1st time our founder @spacechelle did microgravity research & @cololicottSteven was her mentor. Join both of them at @ascendspace next week to find out how this eventually helped launch Higher Orbits! #SpaceInspires #STEM @PurdueAeroAstro @aiaa #tbt
Ronak was a great part of a zero-gravity flight team as a senior. No surprise he's doing great! Boiler Up!
“The whole ethos of #Boilermakers is built on hard work.” @NASA flight director Ronak Dave shares his journey from #PurdueAAE classes to cheering on the @BoilerBall team with @ThePaintCrew! Hear more on #ThisIsPurdue. 🎧
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