Purdue Grad Selected for NASA Mission
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA Purdue University graduate will head into space for the first time as part of a NASA mission to the International Space Station. Scott Tingle will join two others when they launch in September 2017.
Tingle is a captain in the U.S. Navy and a member of NASA’s 2009 astronaut class. He earned his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue in 1988.
NASA also announced veteran astronaut Randy Bresnik will also head to the ISS in a separate mission in November 2017.
"There’s so much going on aboard the space station at this point, so many science experiments and technology demonstrations," said Chris Cassidy, chief of the Astronaut Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. "Scott and Randy have their work cut out for them, but I have no doubt they’ll do excellent jobs."
Tingle, along with cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will join the ISS’s Expedition 53 crew. That crew consists of NASA astronaut Jack Fischer, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespolio, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.