NASA Astronaut, Col. Shane Kimbrough at University College Cork

NASA Astronaut, Col. Shane Kimbrough visited UCC on October 5th during a
three-day visit to Ireland. Col. Kimbrough was greeted by Professor Anita
Maguire, Vice-President for Research & Innovation, UCC and had the
opportunity of meeting Physics and Astrophysics students and staff and
visiting the Crawford Observatory.

Also accompanying Col. Kimbrough to UCC were Professor Paul Callanan,
Department of Physics, UCC and Professor Roger Whatmore, CEO, Tyndall
National Institute.

A native of Texas, Kimbrough joined the NASA team at the Johnson Space
Centre (JSC) in September 2000, and was selected as an astronaut candidate
by NASA in May 2004 and completed his training in February 2006. His
spaceflight experience includes STS-126 Endeavour (November 14 to November
30, 2008) launched at night from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and
returned to land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. It was NASA's 27th
shuttle/station assembly mission, during which Kimbrough performed two
spacewalks.

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