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Article: NASA selects Ohio reservist for space shuttle mission.(Round The Reserve)(National Aeronautics & Space Administration)
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- Citizen Airman
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- April 1, 2004
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An Air Force Reserve officer assigned to the F-16 System Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is one of four National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronauts named to fly on space shuttle mission STS-121.
The mission is scheduled to be the second space shuttle flight since Columbia disintegrated while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board. The first flight is planned for November.
Making his first flight into space will be Lt. Col. Michael E. Fossum, an individual mobilization augmentee assigned to the SPO for the past seven years as a flight test officer with the combined test ...