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2013/03/01 in Featured/News

Queen’s University Alumn Launches Supply Rocket to RMC Alumn in Orbit

An unmanned Falcon rocket launched from Cape Canaveral at 10:10 am this morning on a mission to bring supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. SpaceX – the first private company to deliver supplies to the station – is the brainchild of Elon Musk, an alumnus (COM’94) of Kingston’s Queen’s University. One of the… Keep Reading

2012/12/31 in Featured/Science & Tech

Astronaut Chris Hadfield Tweets Photo of Kingston from Orbit

Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted a photo of Kingston this week that he snapped while in orbit on the International Space Station (left). Hadfield, who graduated from Kingston’s Royal Military College in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, was launched into space on December 19 aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and docked with the ISS two… Keep Reading

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