| Tuesday, October 27, 2026 |
| U. of Alabama celebrates its contributions to Artemis missions at Texas A&M game | |
 | The University of Alabama commemorated its role in NASA's Artemis II mission at this weekend's game against Texas A&M. NASA astronauts and U.S. Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., held a plaque honoring a university flag that traveled more than 685,000 miles to the moon and back as part of the mission. The university played a crucial role in the mission through software developed on campus that helps calculate and design spacecraft trajectories, according to a previous UA news release. The Astrodynamics Software and Science Enabling Toolkit, developed in Dr. Rohan Sood's lab, evaluates safe trajectories for NASA's ongoing and future missions, including Artemis I and II. NASA used the toolkit to analyze the trajectory of Artemis I's Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage, which helped boost the Orion spacecraft toward the Moon. "When they detach the ICPS, engineers need to know whether it may come back to Earth or can be safely disposed of in space," Sood said. |
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