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Penn State celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary with STEM events Penn State News - July 31, 2019 Neil Armstrong took “one giant step” 50 years ago when he became the first human to walk on the moon. To mark the Apollo 11 mission’s anniversary and promote STEM education, Penn State held family events last week to honor the historic launch and lunar landing. More Aerospace engineers to develop drone for NASA Penn State News - July 17, 2019 Researchers from the Penn State Department of Aerospace Engineering are part of a team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) whose proposal for a revolutionary rotorcraft to investigate Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has been selected by NASA as one of two finalists for the agency’s next New Frontiers mission. Dragonfly, a drone-like multi-rotor lander, would take advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere (four times denser than Earth’s atmosphere) and low gravity (one-seventh of Earth's) to fly between widely-spaced landing sites on Titan’s surface. At each landing site, Dragonfly would employ a suite of science instruments to investigate Titan’s organic chemistry and habitability; monitor atmospheric and surface conditions; image landforms to investigate geological processes; and perform seismic studies. More Apollo 11 moon landing speaker and film event Penn State News - July 17, 2019 To celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, Penn State will host a speaker and film event at The State Theatre in downtown State College on Saturday, July 20. Former NASA astronaut James Pawelczyk, associate professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State who flew aboard the NASA STS-90 Space Shuttle mission, will speak before introducing the 2019 documentary “Apollo 11.” More |