Princeton resident takes top honors as part of West Point team
Princeton resident takes top honors as part of West Point team
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U.S. Military Academy Cadet Alexa Zammit, a native of Princeton, and her team, Team Superstrand, recently placed first in the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge.PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S.M.A. AT WEST POINT
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U.S. Military Academy Cadet Alexa Zammit, a native of Princeton, and her team, Team Superstrand, recently placed first in the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge.PHOTO COURTESY OF U.S.M.A. AT WEST POINT
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A Princeton resident is part of one of two West Point teams that earned first and second place titles at the 2021 Warfighter Innovation in Science and Engineering Challenge during a live virtual event hosted by the Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center on April 27.
Michael Collins Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: April 28, 2021
Birth place: Rome, Italy
Mother: Virginia (Stewart) Collins
Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen
Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952; Harvard University, Advanced Management Program, 1974
Military Service: US Air Force, 1952-1970, Major General
Other Facts
Collins completed two space flights during his career, logging 266 hours in space – 1 hour and 27 minutes of this was spacewalking.
Said he believes that extraterrestrials do exist, telling the New York Daily News in 1999: “It seems to me the height of arrogance to say that our little stupid sun off in one obscure corner of an odd galaxy called the Milky Way should be the only one in the whole universe capable of developing what we sometimes refer to as intelligent life.”
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NASA astronaut Michael Collins inside an Apollo command module simulator. Credit: NASA
Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, has passed away after a battle with cancer, his family announced Wednesday. He was 90.
Michael Collins Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: April 28, 2021
Birth place: Rome, Italy
Mother: Virginia (Stewart) Collins
Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen
Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952; Harvard University, Advanced Management Program, 1974
Military Service: US Air Force, 1952-1970, Major General
Other Facts
Collins completed two space flights during his career, logging 266 hours in space – 1 hour and 27 minutes of this was spacewalking.
Said he believes that extraterrestrials do exist, telling the New York Daily News in 1999: “It seems to me the height of arrogance to say that our little stupid sun off in one obscure corner of an odd galaxy called the Milky Way should be the only one in the whole universe capable of developing what we sometimes refer to as intelligent life.”
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