Veteran NASA astronaut and Georgia Tech grad Shane Kimbrough is currently commanding the International Space Station, but he’s also thinking of home.
On Monday afternoon, Kimbrough tweeted two photos of Atlanta taken from ISS.
“Hello, Atlanta from @Space_Station! My hometown is looking amazing from space. Can you pick out some of my favorite places: Georgia Tech, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, The Varsity, Georgia State, Coca-Cola Museum, State Farm Arena, Piedmont Park, Ponce City Market, Dobbins ARB?”
Hello, Atlanta from @Space_Station! My hometown is looking amazing from space. Can you pick out some of my favorite places: Georgia Tech, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, The Varsity, Georgia State, Coca-Cola Museum, State Farm Arena, Piedmont Park, Ponce City Market, Dobbins ARB? pic.twitter.com/97xEsGoUCN
— Shane Kimbrough (@astro_kimbrough) August 30, 2021
Georgia Tech responded to its former student.
Oh, hey there. 👋 https://t.co/Y26WwGbqIL
— Georgia Tech (@GeorgiaTech) August 30, 2021
Kimbrough and his crew headed to ISS in April, spending 23 hours in the same Dragon capsule used by SpaceX’s debut crew in May 2020.
His first trip to space was in 2008 on the Space Shuttle Endeavour, he told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2017. “We fixed a lot of things on the Space Station. I was lucky enough to do two spacewalks. The mission I just returned from lasted 173 days and I got the chance to do four spacewalks. We also did about 300 experiments submitted by scientists from all over the world.”
Kimbrough was born June 4, 1967, in Killeen, Texas. He graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta in 1985. He received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point in 1989 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army.
After earning his masters at Georgia Tech in 1998, he was assigned as an assistant professor at West Point.
Kimbrough was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 2004. In February 2006, he completed astronaut candidate training.
