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Joe Tanner, NASA astronaut and former senior instructor at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ is being inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.Ìý

Tanner flew on four Space Shuttle missions from 1994 to 2006, taking part in Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions and critical assembly work on the Interntional Space Station.

After retiring from NASA, he joined the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, where he served as a senior instructor for nearly a decade.

The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame was created by the original Mercury Seven astronauts to recognize accomplishments in space and contributions to space exploration.Ìý