Alan G. Poindexter

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• I grew up in a Navy family, and like most service families, we traveled a lot and moved a lot. I grew up on both… Both
• Moving around a lot allows you to experience many different cultures and learn about the ways that different people in different parts of the country… Adventuresome
• I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach,… Activities
• I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot… Astronaut
• I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy environment, and so,… Big
• My job during the EVAs, the spacewalks, is to act as the inside coordinator. I remain on the aft flight deck of the shuttle, and… Act
• When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does… Crawling

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