2021 You’ve Been a Blast We are living in historic times where the aerospace industry is constantly pushing the boundaries of innovation. Embry-Riddle alumni stand on the front lines of this exciting era and what once seemed an impossibility — commercial spaceflight. Driven by a passion for discovery, our Eagles have given us the collective experience of witnessing something extraordinary.
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APR.23.2021
Did You Know? The mission follows Crew-1, which launched in November 2020, and marks the first time two Crew Dragon vehicles are attached simultaneously to the space station.
SpaceX Completes Crew-2 Mission On April 23, SpaceX launched four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon vehicle. Crew-2 marked the company’s third human mission for NASA.
Veronica McGowan , ’16
JUL.11.2021
Aerospace Engineering Structural Design/Operations Engineer at Virgin Galactic
“My team and I are responsible for the design, build and maintenance of the spaceship and mothership airframes, which are essentially the bones of the vehicles that hold the systems, electronics and propulsion components. On launch day, I was the livestream ‘mission host,’ providing commentary and explanation of the various phases of the flight.”
Virgin Galactic Celebrates Unity 22 Launch Virgin Galactic completed the first-ever human commercial spaceflight, Unity 22. This suborbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity carried a team of two pilots and four mission specialists, including Sir Richard Branson.
Photo: Virgin Galactic
SpaceX Makes History with Inspiration4 On Sept. 15, Jared Isaacman (’12) and Chris Sembroski (’07) were two of four members of the world’s first all-civilian orbital space mission. SEPT.15.2021
JUL.20.2021
Blue Origin Launches NS-16
July 20 marked the company’s first crewed suborbital spaceflight with founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers aboard the New Shepard rocket.
Photo: Inspiration4
Inspiration4 Inspiration4 is the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit — and half of its crew are graduates of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Part of History Aerospace Engineering alumnus Collin Anderson (’18) with Wally Funk after her historic space- flight in the New Shepard rocket. Anderson was one of the FAA Commercial Space Transportation safety inspectors on-console for the July launch.
Christopher Sembroski , ’07 Professional Aeronautics Eagles in space! #erau Everyone who looks up and wonders if they, too, could travel among the stars, #Inspiration4 demonstrated that space is for all of us. We diligently put in an intense amount of work over the last 6 months to successfully and safely execute this mission. Thank you to everyone who has had a hand in opening the last frontier and for supporting me and my crew.
Bingeworthy Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space — A five-part docuseries jointly produced to chronicle, in near real-time, the successful SpaceX Inspiration4 orbital mission.
“Being able to not only witness history but be a part of it was truly an experience unlike any other.”
The Thrill of Discovery “When you read about the moon in a textbook, you sometimes wonder what it felt like to be at the forefront of those findings. Now, with all the data that will be gathered, we’ll experience the thrill of discovery and inspire future generations to look at the moon in a different way.”
Collin Anderson , ’18 Aerospace Engineering
Daniel Posada , ’20, ’23 Aerospace Engineering
SPRING.2022
To the Moon: EagleCam Prepares for Historic Mission Embry-Riddle students are set to make history next spring as they launch their EagleCam CubeSat to take the first-ever photos of a spacecraft’s descent and extraterrestrial landing on the moon.
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