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    Vanderbilt Rocket Team earns 2022 NASA Student Launch Project Award

    The Vanderbilt rocket team won the coveted NASA Student Launch Project Review Award for the best documentation of the project progress through 2021-2022. The national Student Launch rocketry competition was held in April and results were announced June 3.  This is Vanderbilt’s 15th year to participate in the annual NASA… Read More

    Jun. 15, 2022

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    New Fund to Sustain VADL’s Vision

    Sustaining VADL’s Vision of Aerospace Engineering Immersion and Excellence is the goal of the new funding from Emeritus Chairman of the VU Board of Trust… Read More

    Mar. 4, 2022

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    Blue Origin’s 1st Crew Flight: VADL Director Comments

    By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer June 7, 2021, 2:54 PM  The Associated Press,  ABC News CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Outdoing his fellow billionaires in daredevilry, Jeff Bezos will blast into space next month when his Blue Origin company makes its first flight with a crew. The 57-year-old Amazon founder and richest… Read More

    Jun. 17, 2021

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    Vanderbilt Rocketry Team Places Second in NASA Launch Competition

    The Vanderbilt Rocket Team placed second in the Launch Division of the 2021 NASA Student Launch Competition, the space agency announced June 4. The team will receive $2,500 from the National Space Club. The Vanderbilt team also won NASA’s Educational Engagement Award for their innovative virtual rocketry workshops for school… Read More

    Jun. 10, 2021

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    Space Force Chief Visits with VADL

    United States Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond visited Vanderbilt University to learn about the pioneering aerospace engineering projects at the university’s research institutes and trans-institutional programs. The visit also presented areas for collaboration with the newest independent service of the U.S. military. Read More

    May. 28, 2021

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    Vanderbilt Rocketeers Win Seventh NASA Launch National Title

    The Vanderbilt University rocket team has won an unprecedented seventh NASA Student Launch national title, NASA officials today announced the Artemis Generation winners of its 2020 launch competition. Read More

    Jul. 24, 2020

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    Mission Accomplished

    After eight months of late nights writing reports, early morning presentations to NASA rocketry experts, and weekends spent building, testing, flying, and perfecting their machines, Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, claimed top honors for the seventh time in the last eight years at NASA Student… Read More

    Jul. 24, 2020

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    VADL Design Team Member is VUSE Founder’s Medalist

    VADL Design Team Member and Payload Specialist Luke Neise has been honored as the 2020 VUSE graduating class’ Founder’s Medalist. Neise has the prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and is set to begin graduate study in the aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford.      … Read More

    May. 9, 2020

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    VADL alumnus makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list with solar cell startup

    VADL Alumnus Kevin Bush, BE’14, has been named to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List, which highlights “600 revolutionaries in 20 industries changing the course—and the face—of business and society.” Bush was selected in the energy sector. Read More

    Jan. 31, 2020

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    Vanderbilt rocketeers invited to special NASA Artemis unveiling day

    A team from the Vanderbilt Aerospace Design Lab was specially selected by NASA to present their university-based flight projects to the NASA Administrator, NASA officials and national media at Artemis Day, Dec. 9, 2019, at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. VADL is a six-time champion and an eight-time… Read More

    Dec. 13, 2019