Department of Aerospace Engineering

AerE graduate Clay Anderson has now completed three spacewalks as a flight engineer working on the International Space Station (ISS).  On August 15, Anderson and Rick Mastracchio, flight specialist from the space shuttle...

Three aerospace engineering alums—Clay Anderson, MS’83, astronaut; LeRoy Cain, BS’88, space shuttle launch integration manager; and Joel Montalbano, BS’88, flight director—are key figures in NASA’s current missions to the...

Joel Montalbano, an Iowa State aerospace engineering alum and NASA flight director since 1999, is the lead space station flight director for space shuttle Endeavor’s mission (STS-118) to the International Space Station (ISS). A...

AER E Alum completes first spacewalk

Aerospace engineering alum Clay Anderson, a flight engineer working onboard the International Space Station, and Fyodor Yurchikhin, ISS commander, completed a nearly 8-hour spacewalk...

The Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on June 8, 2007, with AER E Alum, Clayton C. Anderson on board.  He is the first ISU Alum to become an astronaut.  Full details on this event

Shuttle Launch Updates NASA...