UTSI Grad Aboard Atlantis Space Shuttle
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — NASA’s first major space station construction job in orbit was performed Tuesday by a University of Tennessee graduate. Mission specialist Chris Hadfield, a 1992 UT Space Institute graduate, maneuvered a 15-foot, 9,000-pound Russian-built docking tunnel from the rear of the space shuttle Atlantis cargo bay to within inches of a docking ring.