The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June welcomed their new ride home with Sunday’s arrival of a SpaceX capsule – with AeroAstro alum and Crew-9 commander Nick Hague SM ‘00 aboard for the mission.
Professor Olivier de Weck oversees the astronautics and aeronautics program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been following the rescue mission closely.
“It is a relief,” he told Boston 25 over the weekend. “All it takes to get home is to open the hatch, get in, close the hatch, and come back.”
Hague is an alum of de Weck’s program at MIT.
De Weck added, “Whenever one of them goes up, it’s a special occasion. We try to connect with them live while up there.”
