Aerospace Engineering Students Design Mission Athena, Win First Place
August 30, 2010
August 30, 2010
BLACKSBURG, Va., Aug. 30 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Virginia Tech's design of a reliable and cost effective system to send a minimum of two astronauts to a Near Earth Asteroid and return them safely to earth has won the team first place in the 2010 American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA) Team Space Transportation Design Competition.
The Virginia Tech engineering students called themse . . .
Virginia Tech's design of a reliable and cost effective system to send a minimum of two astronauts to a Near Earth Asteroid and return them safely to earth has won the team first place in the 2010 American Institute of Aerospace and Aeronautics (AIAA) Team Space Transportation Design Competition.
The Virginia Tech engineering students called themse . . .