Curated playlist
MIT School of Engineering alumni
- Buzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin's first words on the Moon were "Beautiful view." Years later he was selling used cars.
- Yu-Chi HoA paperwork error sent Yu-Chi Ho to electrical engineering instead of mechanical. He decided to stay.
- Robert SeamansRobert Channing Seamans Jr. sat down for his last television interview in the autumn of 2007, speaking about the guidance and navigation system that helped carry Apollo astronauts to the Moon. He did not see it aired. The episode of the…
- David ScottDavid Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the Moon. The Apollo 15 commander did it on live television.
- Edgar MitchellApollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had a spiritual awakening on his way home from the Moon.
- Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil's team built a machine that read printed pages aloud for blind people. It was unveiled in January 1976.
- Charles DukeCharles Duke walked on the Moon at 36, and no one younger has ever done it.
- Rusty SchweickartAstronaut Rusty Schweickart took up meditation after a five-minute pause outside Apollo 9.
- Sal KhanSal Khan appeared on the cover of Forbes in 2012 beneath a bold tagline: "The $1 Trillion Opportunity." The phrase did not describe a gadget or a start-up with a flashy product. It described free lessons, recorded by one teacher and open…
- John G. TrumpJohn G. Trump died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the 21st of February 1985, six days before a White House ceremony in his honor. His son John Jr. accepted the National Medal of Science on his behalf. President Ronald Reagan had awarded…