NOLS Wind Pants are “Out of this World”

June 15, 2009

News-060409g Outdoor adventurers aren’t the only ones seeking the comfort of NOLS’ trademark green and blue nylon wind pants—NASA recently released The STS-125 Official Flight Kit Manifest—a list of 108 items that space shuttle Atlantis has recently been unpacking from their last epic voyage outside of Earth’s boundaries. Rolling in at #44 (ironically, this is also NOLS’ 44th anniversary year!) were “Green and Blue Nylon Pants”—coming from none other than the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, WY.

On board Atlantis was four-time NOLS grad John Grunsfeld. Way to represent, John! Read more about John and the relationship between NASA and NOLS in the upcoming issue of the Leader.

(NASA Photo)

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Rich Brame

Rich Brame came to NOLS in the 80's as a Fall Semester in the Rockies student and worked his first NOLS course at Wind Cave National Park in 1984. Since then, he's worked varied NOLS trips and courses on five continents—with a few more on the way. Rich does some frontcountry shenanigans for NOLS, too. He's headed up NOLS' public policy, research, LNT, Yukon programs and most recently in the Alumni Relations Department.