A cartoon image of a lunar landscape, half in the cold and half in the heat.

Dr. Darren Hartl has partnered with NASA to design an adaptable radiator that combats the moon’s extreme temperatures as lunar exploration continues.

Astronauts performing maintenance at a Mars colony.

New engineering dean, key faculty members support the concept.

An image of a satellite orbiting above Earth.

The U.S. Space Force awarded $37.6 million for the five-year project that will infuse new technologies into space research and operations.

Orion spacecraft orbiting the moon.

Researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University are joining a multi-university team to improve space domain awareness.

Five students stand in behind a poster board.

A team composed of freshmen from the College of Engineering recently won first place at the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge for creating a wearable device to track crew member location and orientation while in space.

Five male and one female student stand on a staircase, smiling at the camera. The female student holds a vial and needle.

A senior capstone team developed a solution to reduce the risk of injections in space for their final project.

A wreath with flowers stands in a park. In the middle of the wreath is a photo of seven astronauts. A blue ribbon reads STS-107 Columbia 20 year commemoration.

The massive recovery effort helped NASA officials understand what caused the shuttle to break up, but the investigation also revealed workplace culture issues in NASA.

A female student wearing a VR headset and holding controls in a research laboratory.

Researchers at Texas A&M University are building scents into virtual reality environments and looking at the effects of olfactory stimulation on behavioral health — specifically, how multisensory VR can support astronauts during future long-duration missions.