Space and Society department Dustin Bates, 2006 ISU Summer Session Program Teaching Associate Astronauts Oleg Atkov, Russian Railways, Faculty James H. Newman, NASA, the first ISU alumnus (SSP 1989) to go into space Jeffrey Hoffman, NASA & MIT, Faculty Chiaki Mukai, JAXA, Faculty Reinhold Ewald, ESA, lecturer Jean-Jacques Favier, CNES, lecturer Robert Thirsk, CSA, lecturer Soyeon Yi, KARI, lecturer, the first astronaut to attend ISU (SSP 2009) Anousheh Ansari, the first person to receive an ISU honorary doctorate while in space Sergei Krikalev, Energya, Special Guest Lecturer Yang Liwei, CASC, Special Guest Lecturer Michel Tognini, CNES & ESA, Special Guest Lecturer Jessica Meir, NASA, alumna (MSS 2000) References External links ISU Library public page on Netvibes Dave Haslam about "25 years of the ISU" (YouTube Video) SpaceUp Stuttgart 2012 Space University takes off with the first international summer institute Buildings and structures in Bas-Rhin Education in Grand Est Educational institutions established in 1987 1987 establishments in France