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Article: MICHAEL P. ANDERSON AIR FORCE BRAT LOVED SCIENCE, KNEW HE'D FLY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2003
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Michael P. Anderson, son of an Air Force man, grew up on Air Force
bases and saw NASA as a way to meld two interests he had since
childhood - science and aviation.
"I found that science was something that really caught my
attention. . . . And you know, being an Air Force brat and living on
Air Force bases, I was always around airplanes," Anderson said in a
recent interview on NASA's website.
Anderson was fascinated by Star Trek as a boy. At age 9, he
watched the first moon landing. "I can't ever remember thinking that
I couldn't do it," Anderson, one of NASA's few African-American
astronauts, said in a University of Washington alumni publication.
Anderson, 43, was born on Christmas Day, ...