Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland, on
Monday, March 14, for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge,
an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.
Following the recent return of Embry-Riddle alumni astronauts
Alvin Drew and Nicole Stott from their STS-133 space shuttle
mission to the International Space Station (ISS), another ERAU
alumnus prepares for his own journey to the station, where he'll
spend six months as a flight engineer.