Third Drexel alumni heads for space
Pat Xin
Issue date: 8/11/06 Section: Sci-Tech
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Christopher J. Ferguson is a 1984 Drexel mechanical engineering graduate who was selected to pilot the Space Shuttle Atlantis for NASA's STS-115 mission. The mission is scheduled to launch Sunday, August 27, 2006.
The 11-day, six-member mission, involves the installion of a second set of solar arrays on to the International Space Station, effectively doubling the station's ability to generate power from sunlight. To prepare for this the six-member crew have trained for four years.
This is the first space mission for Ferguson who was selected by NASA in 1998 and stationed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. where he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch.
Ferguson is the third astronaut to have graduated from Drexel University. The priors are James Bagian and Paul Richards.
- Pat Xin
The 11-day, six-member mission, involves the installion of a second set of solar arrays on to the International Space Station, effectively doubling the station's ability to generate power from sunlight. To prepare for this the six-member crew have trained for four years.
This is the first space mission for Ferguson who was selected by NASA in 1998 and stationed at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. where he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft Systems/Operations Branch.
Ferguson is the third astronaut to have graduated from Drexel University. The priors are James Bagian and Paul Richards.
- Pat Xin
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