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Happily for human spaceflight, Dava Newman and her students enjoy working in such laboratories as NASA’s “Vomit Comet.” Newman’s work aims to provide a better understanding of how humans can withstand the rigors of space missions. Her decades studying human physiology and performance in extreme envi ...

A trio of graduates from MIT’s Technology and Policy Program (TPP) discuss their career paths, bumps and all, and offer guidance to current students. Having studied as a mechanical engineer, Eric Amundsen “never in life thought (he) would be an attorney.” Then he “stumbled across patent law.” He at ...

High hopes meet high frustration in this panel, whose participants collectively yearn for a new vision to guide our space program. Andrew Chaikin recommends a three-step self-help regimen to move the program forward: lowering the cost of access to space (the going rate is 10 thousand dollars per pou ...

In this panel, founders of technology and policy programs at MIT and elsewhere recall the early years, take stock of the current state of engineering education and look to the future. “Society faces major issues neither technology nor policy sciences can handle alone,” states Richard de Neufville. ...