HOUGHTON, MI-- A former astronaut will address graduates at Michigan Tech’s commencement ceremony on Saturday.
Lt. Col. Gregory H. Johnson is a former test pilot who logged more than 60 combat missions in the Middle East as a fighter pilot with the US Air Force. In 2006 he was selected to pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to assemble the International Space Station. That mission launched March 2008. Three years later, Johnson piloted Endeavour’s final flight to the ISS, the second-to-last space shuttle flight ever.
He has spent more than 31 days in space, orbited the Earth nearly 500 times and traveled more than 12.5 million miles.
Johnson lives part time in Traverse City.
Tech’s commencement takes place Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the MacInnes Student Ice Arena.
