{"47622":{"#nid":"47622","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Astronaut Kimbrough \\\u0022Touches Down\\\u0022 at Tech","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Friday, June 26th, Army Lt. Col. Shane Kimbrough (MS OR, 1998) returned to campus to speak about his recent trip to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Last November\u0027s mission marked the first trip into orbit for the Atlanta native, who attended The Lovett School.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough was in town for NASA\u0027s Hometown Heroes 2009 Campaign, a program that brings astronauts to their home states to share the exciting message of continued space exploration and scientific research represented by the ISS. Aboard the STS-126 mission, which was popularly dubbed the \u0022Extreme Makeover: Space Station Edition,\u0022 he performed two spacewalks and assisted the crew in installing upgrades and expanding the space station\u0027s capabilities. In particular, the crew installed a new toilet with a water purification system that will allow the ISS to support a crew of up to six people.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EA crowd of over 200 Georgia Tech faculty, students, and guests filled the Student Center Theatre for Kimbrough\u0027s presentation on July 26. He introduced the audience to the ISS\u0027s facilities and crew, which included fellow Georgia Tech graduates Eric Boe (MS EE, 1997) and Sandra Magnus (PhD MSE, 1996). At the end of his presentation, he opened up the floor to the audience for a question-and-answer session in which he fielded inquiries about the launch sequence, his spacewalks, his typical workday in space, and his acclimation to low-gravity. Afterward, the astronaut signed autographs for the audience in attendance, many of whom were local children attending on-campus engineering summer camps.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKimbrough\u0027s visit to Georgia Tech was hosted through the College of Engineering by the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering. A 40-minute video of the presentation has been made available through the SMARTech repository online. For more information, please see:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/28916\u0027\u003Ehttp:\/\/smartech.gatech.edu\/handle\/1853\/28916\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"On June 26th, Lt. Col. Shane Kimbrough returned to campus to speak about his recent trip to the International Space Station as part of NASA\u0027s Hometown Heroes 2009 Campaign.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Astronaut Kimbrough \u0022Touches Down\u0022 at Tech"}],"uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-07-16 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:03:53","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-07-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"47623":{"id":"47623","type":"image","title":"Nancy Sandlin, Director of Development; Lt. Col. S","body":null,"created":"1449175354","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:34","changed":"1475894447","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:47","alt":"Nancy Sandlin, Director of Development; Lt. Col. 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