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02-01-2003, 12:36 PM
Profiles of 7 Astronauts Aboard Shuttle (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10299-2003Feb1.html)
The Associated Press
Saturday, February 1, 2003; 10:45 AM
A brief look at the six Americans and Israel's first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia:
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Commander Rick Husband, 45, Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Texas. The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. He made up his mind as a child that that was what he was going to do with his life.
"It's been pretty much a lifelong dream and just a thrill to be able to get to actually live it out," he said in an interview before Columbia's launch, his second spaceflight. His first spaceflight, in 1999, was the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station. He has logged more than 235 hours in space.
Husband received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1980 and a master of science in mechanical engineering from California State University-Fresno in 1990.
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Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons. He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996. This was his first spaceflight.
McCool earned a bachelor of science in applied science from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master of science in computer science from the University of Maryland in 1985, and a master of science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1992.
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Payload commander Michael Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man who grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force when NASA chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of black astronauts. He traveled to Russia's Mir space station in 1998. The lieutenant colonel was in charge of Columbia's dozens of science experiments. His home is in Spokane, Wash.
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The Associated Press
Saturday, February 1, 2003; 10:45 AM
A brief look at the six Americans and Israel's first astronaut aboard space shuttle Columbia:
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Commander Rick Husband, 45, Air Force colonel from Amarillo, Texas. The former test pilot was selected as an astronaut in 1994 on his fourth try. He made up his mind as a child that that was what he was going to do with his life.
"It's been pretty much a lifelong dream and just a thrill to be able to get to actually live it out," he said in an interview before Columbia's launch, his second spaceflight. His first spaceflight, in 1999, was the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station. He has logged more than 235 hours in space.
Husband received a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Texas Tech University in 1980 and a master of science in mechanical engineering from California State University-Fresno in 1990.
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Pilot William McCool, 41, Navy commander from Lubbock, Texas, and father of three sons. He graduated second in his 1983 class at the Naval Academy, went on to test pilot school and became an astronaut in 1996. This was his first spaceflight.
McCool earned a bachelor of science in applied science from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master of science in computer science from the University of Maryland in 1985, and a master of science in aeronautical engineering from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in 1992.
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Payload commander Michael Anderson, 43, the son of an Air Force man who grew up on military bases. He was flying for the Air Force when NASA chose him in 1994 as one of only a handful of black astronauts. He traveled to Russia's Mir space station in 1998. The lieutenant colonel was in charge of Columbia's dozens of science experiments. His home is in Spokane, Wash.
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Click here to read more (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10299-2003Feb1.html)