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Published: October 16, 2007 02:27 pm    print this story   email this story  

MSU alum who works for NASA to talk Thursday

MOREHEAD, Ky.---Morehead State University’s Homecoming events will include a visit from alumnus Randy Lillard, who is currently at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Applied Aeroscience Branch at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSFC) in Houston.

Lillard will provide a public lecture on NASA’s aerospace program, his role in the Space Shuttle Program and in the development of NASA’s new spacecraft, Orion.

The 1988 MSU graduate, originally from Northern Kentucky, received a B.S.degree in physics. During his time on campus, he worked for three years as an undergraduate research assistant at the Space Science Center (then the Astrophysics Laboratory).

After leaving, he completed a master’s degree in engineering at Georgia Tech and began a career as an aerospace engineer. He currently serves at NASA JSFC as the team lead of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Division.

Lillard’s division undertakes applied aerospace studies - i.e. fluid dynamics (fluids in motion) analysis - and studies of various NASA spacecraft including the Space Shuttle and the new Orion spacecraft which is designed to replace the shuttle.

Applied aeroscience deals with fluid dynamical studies of the external flow field associated with a flight vehicle during take-off, flight, and re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the computer simulation of a moving fluid (gas or liquid). From an aeroscience perspective, it is basically a “numerical wind tunnel.”

Lillard’s “AeroLab” supports the Aerosciences community at Johnson Space Center by providing discipline expertise from launch through landing for NASA’s current and planned spacecraft. He will speak about his work, the work of the Aerolab at JSFC, and NASA’s new spacecraft Orion that will return us to the moon by 2018.

His talk will be held Thursday, Oct.18, at 7 p.m. in 002 Breckinridge Hall.

Morehead State University and the MSU Space Science Center are sponsoring the event. Lillard also will provide a technical seminar for science students on Friday, Oct. 19. For more information call the MSU Space Science Center at 783-2381, or visit its Web site at ssc.moreheadstate.edu

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