Oneonta graduate Ron Garan '82 completed his Space Shuttle Mission STS-124 on June 14th. While on the mission Ron carried with him a few Oneonta mementos.  In the picture below

Ron shows off his Oneonta Alumni decal in front of the windows of the newly installed Japanese laboratory after he and his colleagues installed it on the International Space Station.  See the links below for more information and photos of Ron's participation in the installation of the laboratory:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts124/main/index.html

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-124/ndxpage1.html

STS-124 Shuttle Mission Imagery

ISS017-E-009220 (8 June 2008) --- Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint, astronaut Ron Garan, STS-124 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third scheduled session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction and maintenance continue on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, 33-minute spacewalk, Garan and astronaut Mike Fossum (out of frame), mission specialist, exchanged a depleted Nitrogen Tank Assembly for a new one, removed thermal covers and launch locks from the Kibo laboratory, reinstalled a repaired television camera onto the space station's left P1 truss, and retrieved samples of a dust-like substance from the left Solar Alpha Rotary Joint for analysis by experts on the ground.