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Alumnus Terry Virts Jr. on Mission to Space Station
Embry-Riddle alumnus Terry Virts Jr. is serving as the pilot of STS-130 space shuttle Endeavour on a 13-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The primary goal of the mission is to deliver and install a pressurized connecting node and a robotics cupola during three spacewalks that will leave the ISS almost 90 percent complete. The new node will provide additional room for much of the space station's life-support equipment, including air revitalization, oxygen generation, and water recycling.
Virts earned an M.A.S. in Aeronautics at the Embry-Riddle Worldwide center in Spangdahlem, Germany. He is one of six Embry-Riddle alumni who are current or former astronauts.
