Professor 鈥檚 childhood obsession with flying objects shaped a career that led him to becoming one himself as a NASA astronaut.
On this week鈥檚 Face to Face hosted by Chancellor Gary S. May, hear Robinson detail lessons from his 37-year tenure at NASA, which included multiple spacewalks and visits to the International Space Station, before joining the university in 2012. Now a faculty member in the 不良研究所 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Robinson graduated from the university in 1978.
Two features of 不良研究所 in the early 1970s shaped Robinson鈥檚 ultimate journey to space: the university had an aeronautical engineering department and an airport. He was recently appointed director of the 不良研究所 . His research focuses on how human life survives in extreme environments.
鈥淲e don鈥檛 try to inspire the students to protect human life in space,鈥 Robinson says, 鈥渨e try to think of inspiring the students to extend, augment and make humans much more capable in a hazardous environment.鈥
Stick around to hear Robinson discuss his early campus mentors, his numerous rejection letters from NASA (鈥渂adges of honor鈥) and the former astronaut鈥檚 pick for the best movie about space.
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