Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (Yuaa)

yuaa members work in teams to build and fly rockets, planes, quadcopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles. from first idea to finished aircraft, yuaa projects are entirely student-run. since 2010, yuaa has helped foster yale’s engineering community by welcoming students of any experience level or background and hosting events to promote aerospace engineering on campus. our mission: the yale undergraduate aerospace association promotes and advances aerospace engineering through collaboration, innovation, and outreach. yuaa cultivates leaders who meet challenges with discipline and creativity. our history: yuaa began in 2010 by launching high-altitude balloon projects designed to photograph the earth and perform atmospheric experiments. yuaa’s second balloon, horizon, took this website’s banner image. in 2013, yale aerospace expanded into high-power rocketry, winning first place in the astro-egg lander event of the battle of the rockets competition in culpeper, virginia. at the same time, y