IUPUI Campus Alum Headed Back Into Space
David A. Wolf, a 1982 graduate of the IU School of Medicine at IUPUI, is headed back into outer space.
Wolf, featured in a 2006 issue of IUPUI Magazine, will make his fourth trip into space for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in a 2009 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Wolf currently is the director of spacewalks for NASA, training fellow astronauts in extravehicular activities that he himself has experienced. The 2009 mission is expected to include several spacewalks, according to news reports about the flight.
International space stations are a familiar environment for the Indianapolis native; he spent 119 days aboard the Russian space station Mir in a 1997 mission. In a 2002 flight, he was part of a NASA crew that helped assemble the current ISS. His first NASA flight came in 1993 on a two-week life sciences research mission.
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