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Article: Space Soldiers
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- October 1, 2008
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SPACE Soldiers," the men and women assigned to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/U.S. Army Forces Strategic Command, perform myriad, oftentimes little-known, missions using space as their springboards to support U.S. military commanders and civilian organizations both at home and abroad.
Most publicized in the commercial media are the many contributions made by NASA astronauts, among them seven Army officers who are assigned to SMDC/ARSTRAT and attached to the Astronaut Detachment at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
There, the active-duty and retired Soldiers prepare for space flights aboard one of NASA's shuttles or the Russian Soyuz rocket for missions to the ...