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.