Lehigh Engineering: The Astronaut, Part 2 with Prof. Terry Hart

This is the second half of our interview with professor of practice, Terry Hart. It begins in 1978, just after Hart was selected from 8,000 applicants to be one of 35 astronauts known as Group 8, the first to include African Americans, Asian Americans, and women.

Hart talks about training for his historic 1984 mission to space, why weightlessness was initially pretty awful, and about the one failure NASA didn’t anticipate. He also explains why he left the astronaut corps, his view on the future of space exploration, and why he calls being named Lehigh University's commencement speaker for the 2020 class, “the honor of my life.”

Hart is a professor of practice in the department of mechanical engineering and mechanics at the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science at Lehigh University.

Rossin Connection is hosted and produced by Christine Fennessy, with support from the Dean's office at the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.

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