Items representing Purdue University’s contributions to flight and space history flew onboard this week’s first test of Orion from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex. Purdue is the alma mater of 23 NASA astronauts. The Orion flight test, a two-orbit, four-hour flight that tested many of the systems most critical to safety, was …read more.

Purdue Student Government will hold a memorial service for university alumnus and Apollo astronaut Neil A. Armstrong at 5:30 p.m. this evening at the West Lafayette campus. The service will be at the Neil Armstrong statue in front of Neil A. Armstrong Hall of Engineering, 701 W. Stadium Ave. Armstrong, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, …read more.