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# Benjamin Drew

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Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. is a United States Air Force officer, the director of space sustainability and acting director of Cross-Directorate Technical Integration for NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, and a former NASA astronaut. He has been on two spaceflights; the first was the Space Shu

##  Quotes by Benjamin Drew

> [“I had rather starve to death here, being a free man, than to have plenty in slavery. I cannot be a slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-drew/i-had-rather-starve-to-death-here-being-a-free-man-than-to-have/)

Benjamin Drew

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