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Article: Space Training School Lures Air Force's Best; `It's the Fast Track,' a Student Says
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- The Washington Post
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- April 22, 1987
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Growing up in St. Louis, Chuck Rothermich spent hours watching
"Star Trek" reruns and televised rocket launches. Now, as one of the
first officers selected to attend the Air Force's space training
school, 2nd Lt. Charles Rothermich has visions of being launched into
orbit as a specialist on a space station.
He is jockeying for a job in the most rapidly expanding field in
the U.S. Air Force-space operations. The number of officers assigned
to space-oriented careers is expected to quadruple by the end of this
decade, from less than 500 in 1980 to 2,000 by 1990, according to Air
Force officials.
"It's the fast track of the Air Force," said Rothermich, 23, an
electrical engineering graduate ...