Scott Kelly (Space Institute 1996) is a NASA astronaut who piloted the Discovery Space Shuttle’s 1999 mission to service the Hubble space telescope.

Charles O. Hobaugh (Space Institute 1994) is a NASA astronaut.

Chris Hadfield (1992) made two Space Shuttle flights as a NASA astronaut. From 2001 through 2003 Colonel Hadfield was in Star City, Russia, as NASA’s director of operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Dominic Gorie (1990) is a NASA astronaut who has made three space flights. He was commander of Space Shuttle Endeavor’s flight in 2001.

Joe Frank Edwards Jr. (1994) was selected a NASA astronaut in 1994, flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, and worked technical issues for the Space Shuttle and Space Station. He retired in 2000.

Jeff Ashby earned the master of science in aviation systems at the UT Space Institute in 1993. According to NASA, Ashby, a career Navy pilot, has traveled more than 11 million miles, flown 436 orbits around the Earth, and logged over 660 hours in space. In 1999, he piloted Space Shuttle Columbia; in 2001 he [...]

Jennifer Santoro Stanley (1995) was a Rhodes Scholar.

Melvin Stewart attended UT in Knoxville from 1989 to 1991. He was a swimmer and earned 2 gold medals and 1 bronze medal in the 1992 Olympics.

William D. “Tripp” Schwenk was an All-America swimmer who attended UT Knoxville during the 1990s. He won both gold and silver medals in the 1996 summer Olympics.

Tim Mack (1996, 1998) won a gold medal in the pole vault in the 2004 summer Olympics. He won the 1995 NCAA indoor pole vault title while a student at UT.