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A visit with Craig Kluever, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Published: October 24, 2007 - Topics:
mission_design
research
electric_propulsion
space_travel
chemical_propulsion
How Kluever came to aerospace engineering
Topics:
aerospace_engineering
space_missions
Asked how he was drawn to aerospace engineering, Kluever responds: “Well, really it’s from the Apollo days. When I was in kindergarten, I remember watching the Apollo 11 landing—the first lunar landing—on a grainy black-and-white TV. That just made a big impact on me, and of course the first thing I wanted to be was an astronaut, and when that didn’t work out I found out that engineers are really what’s needed to design these missions, so aerospace engineering just seemed like a logical thing for me.”