UAH alumna helping NASA get its Space Launch System off the ground

UAH alumna helping NASA get its Space Launch System off the ground

May 30, 2018

It’s going to take a heavy lift to get NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) off the ground and eventually headed for Mars, and an alumna of UAH is boosting that effort. ...

Hugh Coleman

Hugh W. Coleman, UAH’s first Eminent Scholar in Propulsion dies

May 23, 2018

Hugh Wayne Coleman, UAH's first Eminent Scholar in Propulsion and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died on May 15. ...

Roberto Dextre

Graduate student unites his passion for science and enthusiasm for diversity at UAH

Apr 23, 2018

Roberto Dextre first recognized his connection to science at the High School for Environmental Studies in Manhattan, where he noticed that he easily understood math and science. "I think it was the physics courses that opened my mind to how science...

charger rocket works team

Charger Rocket Works earns Vehicle Design Award at NASA competition

Apr 10, 2018

NASA awarded the UAH Charger Rocket Works team with the Launch Vehicle Design Award for creative and innovative overall vehicle design for the intended payloads while maximizing safety and efficiency at its 18th annual Student Launch. ...

Davis Hunter

UAH engineering major’s internships prepare him for a high-flying career in aerospace

Apr 06, 2018

Davis Hunter was making paper airplanes in church at seven years old when another congregant presented a possibility that he had never considered. "They told me that I should be an aerospace engineer," Hunter says. Flash forward to 2018, and he is ...

test stand

UAH’s PRC successfully upgrades cryogenic flow capability of its Rocket Test Facility

Apr 05, 2018

The Propulsion Research Center (PRC) at UAH successfully demonstrated an upgrade to the cryogenic flow capability of its Rocket Test Facility late last month. The demonstration test ran over 20 seconds using a 1,500 pounds per square inch pressuriz...

Rover Team

Rover part of Charger Rocket Works NASA Student Launch entry

Apr 02, 2018

Charger Rocket Works, the student team at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is at full thrust to qualify a nine-foot rocket with an autonomous rover as its payload for the launch portion of the coming NASA Student Launch competition Ap...

Anna Frederick, Bill Snoddy, Dr. Robert Naumann, and Harry Reid

UAH PRC's celebration of Explorer 1 introduces young minds to aerospace veterans

Feb 23, 2018

High school junior Anna Frederick’s research project on the historic Explorer 1 satellite culminated in her meeting Bill Snoddy, Harry Reid, and Dr. Robert Naumann, three of the pioneering minds behind the project. ...

Herndon award recipient

Alumnus David B. Mayo receives Herndon Black Image Award

Feb 14, 2018

Dr. David B. Mayo, a UAH alumnus, has received the 2018 Robert H. Herndon Black Image Award. ...

Ethan Hopping

UAH engineering student uses 3-D printing to successfully build and test Hall-effect thruster

Nov 30, 2017

Ethan Hopping has always been passionate about space. "I remember visiting the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in elementary school, and being inspired by the story of the Apollo program and Huntsville’s role in it." ...