Saturday, September 16, 2017

Happy birthday, shuttle astronaut Kevin Kregel!


Kevin Kregel, born September 16, 1956 in Amityville, NY, is a veteran of four shuttle flights.  Starting in the Air Force, he resigned to go to work for NASA in 1990.  His first Space Shuttle flight was aboard Discovery (STS-70) in July 1995, which deployed a NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite.

Kregel's second trip into space was aboard Columbia (STS-78) in December 1996, a multi-national effort with 10 countries and 5 space agencies cooperating.

He was commander of Columbia for mission STS-87 in November 1997 and spoke to President Bill Clinton over the phone on Thanksgiving Day.

His final trip was aboard Endeavour (STS-99) in February 2000.  The crew mapped more than 47 million miles of Earth's land surface.


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