Astronautics is the theory and practice of travel beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science its overarching field.
Judith Arlene Resnik was an American electrical engineer,software engineer,biomedical engineer,pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman,the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space,logging 145 hours in orbit.
Stephen Kern Robinson is an American former NASA astronaut.
Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer,former astronaut and former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993,Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of the previous director,Michael Coats,on December 31,2012. She was the first Hispanic director and the second female director of Johnson Space Center.
The Cockrell School of Engineering is one of the eighteen colleges within the University of Texas at Austin. It has more than 8,000 students enrolled in eleven undergraduate and thirteen graduate programs. The college is ranked 10th in the world according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities,9th nationally for undergraduate programs and 6th nationally for graduate programs by U.S. News &World Report. Nine of the ten undergraduate programs and seven of the eleven graduate programs are ranked in the top ten nationally. Annual research expenditures are over $180 million and the school has the fourth-largest number of faculty in the National Academy of Engineering.
Gregory Errol Chamitoff is a Canadian-born American engineer and former NASA astronaut. He has been to space twice,spending 6 months aboard the ISS across Expedition 17 and 18 in 2008,and another 15 days as part of STS-134 in 2011. STS-134 was the last of Space Shuttle Endeavour which delivered the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and completed the US Orbital Segment.
Miroslav Krstić is a Serbian-born American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD). Krstićis also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.
The IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award is a technical field award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) to either an individual,or a team,"for outstanding contributions to space engineering within the fields of interest of the IEEE".
Robert David Braun is an American aerospace engineer and academic. He has served as the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder,the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology,and the NASA Chief Technologist. Currently,Dr. Braun is the Space Sector Head at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
John L. Junkins is a professor of aerospace engineering at Texas A&M University specializing in spacecraft navigation,guidance,dynamics and control. He holds the Royce E. Wisenbaker Endowed Chair at Texas A&M University and also serves as the founding director of the Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study. On November 24,2020,Junkins was announced as the interim president of Texas A&M starting January 2021.
Charles A. Sorber was an American civil engineer,engineering professor,and academic administrator He was born in 1939 in Kingston,Pennsylvania,US. He received a bachelor's of science degree in civil engineering in 1961 and a master's of science degree in civil engineering in 1966 at Pennsylvania State University,and a Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering in 1971 at the University of Texas at Austin. During his lifetime Dr. Sorber served in the U.S. Army and in a number of academic,research,and administrative positions in the United States.
David A. Spencer is the Mars Sample Return Campaign Mission Manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. As an aerospace engineer,Spencer designs and operates planetary spacecraft.
Malcolm D. Shuster was an American physicist and aerospace engineer,whose work contributed significantly to spacecraft attitude determination. In 1977 he joined the Attitude Systems Operation of the Computer Sciences Corporation in Silver Spring,Maryland,during which time he developed the QUaternion ESTimator (QUEST) algorithm for static attitude determination. He later,with F. Landis Markley,helped to develop the standard implementation of the Kalman filter used in spacecraft attitude estimation. During his career,he authored roughly fifty technical papers on subjects in physics and spacecraft engineering,many of which have become seminal within the field of attitude estimation,and held teaching assignments at Johns Hopkins University,Howard University,Carnegie-Mellon University and Tel-Aviv University. In 2000 the American Astronautical Society awarded him the Dirk Brouwer Award. In June 2005 the American Astronautical Society held a special three-day Astronautics symposium in his honor
Sanjay Banerjee is an American engineer at the University of Texas at Austin,director of Microelectronics Research Center,and director of the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) —one of three such centers in the United States funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation to develop a replacement for MOSFETs as part of their Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI).
Daniele Mortari is Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and Chief Scientist for Space for Texas A&M ASTRO Center. Mortari is known for inventing the Flower Constellations and the k-vector range searching technique and the Theory of Functional Connections.
School of Astronautics,HIT is the Engineering school of Harbin Institute of Technology. The school is the first-ever school to initiate college education in astronautics discipline in China.
Moriba Kemessia Jah is an American space scientist and aerospace engineer who describes himself as a "space environmentalist",specializing in orbit determination and prediction,especially as related to space situational awareness and space traffic monitoring. He is currently an associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin. Jah previously worked as a spacecraft navigator at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,where he was a navigator for the Mars Global Surveyor,Mars Odyssey,Mars Express,Mars Exploration Rover,and his last mission was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. He is a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society,the Air Force Research Laboratory,the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety and,the Royal Astronomical Society. Jah was also selected into the 10th anniversary class of TED Fellows and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2022. He also was selected into the AIAA class of Fellows and Honorary Fellows in the year of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11. The AIAA "confers the distinction of Fellow upon individuals in recognition of their notable and valuable contributions to the arts,sciences or technology of aeronautics and astronautics."
Eric Feron is a computer scientist and aerospace engineer. He has been the Dutton/Ducoffe Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering at Georgia Tech since 2005.
Swati Mohan is an American aerospace engineer and was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 mission.
Khanh Dai Pham is a Vietnamese-born American aerospace engineer. He is noted for his work in statistical optimal control theory,game-theoretic operations research of military satellite communications,space control autonomy,and space domain awareness and the government leadership in innovation ecosystem and coalition of government agencies,small business and industry. He is a Fellow of the Air Force Research Laboratory,the National Academy of Inventors,the Institution of Engineering and Technology,the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers,the Royal Aeronautical Society,the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety,and the Royal Astronomical Society. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Astronautical Society (AAS),and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
