Grads in Space - Four MIT Alumni will Orbit Earth in November
There will be a heavy MIT presence above the earth's atmosphere this November, as four MIT graduates will be in orbit at the same time. On November 14th, Mechanical engineering grad Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper '84 and ocean engineering grad Stephen Bowen '93 will head to the International Space Station (ISS) to deliver equipment that will enable larger crews to reside there. Stephanyshyn-Piper and Bowen will be joining fellow MIT alums Michael Finke '89 and Gregory Chamitoff PhD '92 in space, marking the first time that as many as four graduates of MIT will be orbiting the earth simultaneously. To learn more about this MIT milestone, read the October 29th issue of TechTalk online.
