High-flying UI alumnus honored
By Mike Monson
Sunday October 28, 2007
Darrell Hoemann
Astronaut Lee Archambault, right, talks Friday night to the Illinois hockey team and fans about this days as a UI player. Archambault had presented an Illinois jersey he wore on the space station to UI coach Chad Cassel.
URBANA – Air Force Col. Lee Archambault might not be the richest University of Illinois alumnus. But it's safe to say that few, if any, UI alumni have had a more exciting, adrenaline-filled career.
Archambault, 47, is a decorated fighter pilot, a test pilot and one of our country's 100 astronauts. He helped pilot the 118th shuttle mission from June 8-22 when it visited the international space station, a mission that had a few tense moments involving a thermal blanket.
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