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He held a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering. He
was a reciprocating engine mechanic for the United States Air Force
and served as a combat aviator in the Vietnam War. In April 1984, he
piloted Challenger mission STS-41-C, which successfully deployed
one satellite and repaired another. Selected for NASA Astronaut
Corps in January 1978, Scobee completed his training in August 1979.
While awaiting his first orbital spaceflight mission, he served as
an instructor pilot for the Shuttle's 747 carrier aircraft. He
was killed while he was commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger in
1986, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of
Dick Scobee the STS-51-L mission.

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Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test
pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist and NASA astronaut. As
the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on
the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, making him the
sixth person to walk on the Moon.

The legacy of his post-NASA scientific and parapsychology work is
carried on through the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Edgar Mitchell

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Roosa was a smokejumper, American aeronautical engineer, United
States Air Force pilot, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, who was
the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 14 mission. The mission
was the third mission to land astronauts (Alan Shepard and Edgar
Mitchell) on the Moon. While Shepard and Mitchell spent two days
on the lunar surface, Roosa conducted experiments from orbit in the
Command Module Kitty Hawk. He was one of 24 men to travel to the
Stuart Roosa Moon, which he orbited 34 times.

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Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. She joined NASA in
1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983. After
flying twice on the Orbiter Challenger, she left NASA in 1987. Many of
the people attending her first launch wore T-shirts bearing the words
"Ride, Sally Ride", lyrics from Wilson Pickett's song "Mustang Sally".
She was the only person to serve on the committees that investigated
both the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters.

Sally Ride

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