Alumnus Kent Rominger Returns To Space Aboard Space Shuttle Columbia
Thursday, November 21, 1996
FORT COLLINS--For the second time in 13 months, shuttle astronaut and
Navy pilot Kent
Rominger, a Colorado State University alum, is a crew member aboard the space
shuttle Columbia.
Rominger is serving as pilot and also will assist in two scientifically
related tasks during the 16-day
mission.
This latest mission, which began Nov. 19 and continues through Dec. 5,
focuses on scientific
and medical experiments. Last fall, Rominger was the co-pilot on a 15-day
mission that also included
numerous scientific experiments.
Rominger, who was born and raised in Del Norte, Colo., received his
bachelor's degree in
civil engineering from Colorado State in 1978. He has spoken on campus about
his first mission
aboard Columbia and was the featured speaker for the College of Engineering's
fall commencement
last December.
Rominger's wife, Mary Sue, also is a Colorado State engineering
graduate. She received her
bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1979. She now works as an
environmental engineering
consultant and mathematics tutor.
During his first mission, Rominger took along sweatshirts from Colorado
State and Del Norte
High School. This time, Rominger has taken another Colorado State sweatshirt
into space and a
university pennant.
Rominger is the fourth person with ties to Colorado State to go into
space and the third to fly
two missions. Graduates Mary Cleve and James van Hoften each flew two NASA
missions in the
1980s. Professor Martin Fettman was the first veterinarian in space as part
of a 1993 shuttle mission.
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