Space shuttle Discovery lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on March 15 with pilot Dominic Antonelli '89 at the controls. Discovery's crew will deliver and assemble the final solar array to the International Space Station. Antonelli will join fellow classmate Michael Fincke '89, who is commander of the Expedition 18 crew already on board the space station.
Photo / John Tylko
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A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on March 18, 2009 (download PDF).
