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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Purdue University Libraries invites you to join us at Tent #2 (close to the Archway\/Armstrong). Special guest and alumnus, Jerry Ross will be signing his book, \u201cSpacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA\u2019s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer,\u201d from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Books will be available to purchase from Purdue University Press for $20 per book.<\/p>\n
Ross was the first human to fly into space seven times and set the original spacewalk record at nine for NASA astronauts. His 30+ year career at NASA spanned the entire US Space Shuttle program. Ross retired from NASA in January 2012. Read more at www.jerrylross.com<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0Also, fun giveaways will be available for Purdue family and friends of all ages \u2013 sunglasses, t-shirts, Frisbees, temporary tattoos! We look forward to seeing you there. Free and open to the public. For more information contact Becky Bunch at: rsbunch@purdue.edu<\/a> or 765-494-2849<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Purdue University Libraries invites you to join us at Tent #2 (close to the Archway\/Armstrong). Special guest and alumnus, Jerry Ross will be signing his book, \u201cSpacewalker: My Journey in Space and Faith as NASA\u2019s Record-Setting Frequent Flyer,\u201d from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Books will be available to purchase from Purdue University Press for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-Ms","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}