After crossing paths on campus during their shared time in the School of Aerospace Engineering, Andy Calloway, AE 89, and James Hudson, MS AE 90, reunited at NASA, where they both work on the Messenger Mission. Calloway serves as the mission operations manager, and Hudson is the guidance control analyst. “Every day is different, and we are literally rewriting the science and engineering textbooks as we explore the inner Solar System,” Calloway said. In January, Messenger completed its mission to capture images of 100 percent of Mercury. Among its discoveries was evidence of ice at the planet’s poles. “It never ceases to amaze me that we are sending signals to a robotic spacecraft hundreds of millions of kilometers away, and then we wait tens of minutes to receive and confirm the responses,” Hudson said.
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