![Astronaut Scott Tingle (left) and Lukas Tamm, chairman of our Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics.](https://makingofmedicine.virginia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/TingleandTamm-351x244.jpg)
NASA Astronaut Touches Down at UVA
For Capt. Scott Tingle, reaching space at one point seemed impossible. He applied repeatedly, but he found himself in his 40s and assumed that his dream was not to be. But he never gave up.