President returns |
 |
|
In 1979 President Gerald R. Ford demonstrates his skill with a trowel during the dedication of the cornerstone of the new Gerald R. Ford Library on North Campus. Photo courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library.
|
This month in history (41 years ago)When Apollo 15 launched on July 26, 1971, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, all three crew members were from U-M: David Scott, who attended in 1949-50, and Al Worden and James Irwin, who both earned materials science and engineering degrees in 1963 and 1957, respectively. It was the first expedition with a lunar rover vehicle and the fourth in which humans walked on the moon. The group left on the moon a charter of the U-M Alumni Club of the Moon. — Official website of Worden, Apollo 15 command module pilot Have a campus memory to share? Use the comment box below. |
Jeff Kopmanis, application programmer senior at the Center for Space Environment Modeling, College of Engineering, on his job: “I make the Web front-ends (that) make it possible for ordinary people to run these very sophisticated tools.”
