BLACKSBURG, Va., July 6 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
In early April, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen were thrust into the international spotlight as they piloted Artemis II, the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since 1972. We all learned their names.
But for missions like that to succeed, it takes the work of untold personnel behind the scenes: people like engineers, scientists, and even statisticians.
Last summer, Virginia Tech statisticians Geoff Vining M.S. '86, Ph.D. '88 and Anne Driscoll M.S. '07, Ph.D. '11 were honored as part of the NASA Engineering and Safety Center stress rupture assessment team, which examined composi...