Alumnus tweeting from final launch of Atlantis July 7-8



Andres Almeida will tweet history as shuttle program nears retirement FIU graduate Andres Almeida has been selected as one of 150 @NASA Twitter followers to attend a two-day Tweetup, July 7 – 8, for the final launch of Atlantis before the space shuttle program is retired. Atlantis is targeted to [...]

Engineering student defies past, graduates with honors

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By Sissi Aguila When Michael Zecca left the Army and announced he was going to college, his mother asked, “So you’re going to be an astronaut?” A veteran and a practical man, Zecca was amused. That was something he’d said in kindergarten. After an adolescence spent barely scraping by, often [...]