Thomas Fly
September 11th, 2011
Helping space shuttles achieve liftoff (MIT)
Friday’s scheduled liftoff of Space Shuttle Atlantis marks the beginning of
the end of nearly four decades of collaboration between MIT and NASA on the
nation’s space shuttle program — a partnership that has shaped spacecraft
design, operations and scientific payloads since Space Shuttle Columbia first
blasted off in 1981.
A total of 27 MIT graduates have since flown on 59 space shuttle missions.
Indeed, the Institute has produced more NASA astronauts than any other private
university: Starting with astronaut David Scott SM ’62 on the Gemini 8
spaceflight in 1966, 32 MIT alumni have flown in space. Four graduates walked
on the lunar surface during the Apollo program from 1969 to 1972.
No MIT alumni are aboard STS-135 — although Kwatsi Alibaruho ’95 is the lead
flight director for Atlantis’ last voyage — but several made their mark aboard
STS-134, this spring’s final flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour. Mission
specialists Gregory Chamitoff PhD ’92 and Michael Fincke ’89 participated in
the shuttle program’s last scheduled spacewalk, on May 27. With Endeavour’s
return to Earth five days later, Fincke set a new U.S. spaceflight endurance
record, with a total of 381 days spent in space during …
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