Not only do Volunteers occupy every corner of the Earth, now they’ve taken over space, too.
Astronauts
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Barry Wilmore (UTSI 1994) was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2000.
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Donald Peterson attended the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma. He was a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983 and retired from NASA the following year.
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Scott Kelly (Space Institute 1996) is a NASA astronaut who piloted the Discovery Space Shuttle’s 1999 mission to service the Hubble space telescope.
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Charles O. Hobaugh (Space Institute 1994) is a NASA astronaut.
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Henry Hartsfield Jr. (Space Institute 1971), was a NASA astronaut. He made three space flights and was mission commander aboard Discovery in 1984 and Challenger in 1985. He is vice …
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Dominic Gorie (1990) is a NASA astronaut who has made three space flights. He was commander of Space Shuttle Endeavor’s flight in 2001.
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Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (1994) was selected a NASA astronaut in 1994, flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, and worked technical issues for the Space Shuttle and Space Station. He …
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Jeff Ashby earned the master of science in aviation systems at the UT Space Institute in 1993. According to NASA, Ashby, a career Navy pilot, has traveled more than 11 …