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8:39am

Fri February 15, 2013
Local

Ex-astronaut coming to Longview says NASA lacks vision today

Credit Chris Halford
Former astronaut Dr. Story Musgrave plans to tell his Longview audience to follow all the forks in the road in their life journeys.

He’s known as one of the most versatile astronauts and he’s coming to Longview to give a talk. Dr. Story Musgrave has pursued many different career paths. He’s a physician and landscape architect. A biophysicist and business consultant. He participated in six Space Shuttle missions, and left NASA in 1997. Today, he yearns for the passion of the space-race heyday of the 1960s, when he was tapped to be an astronaut.

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7:35am

Fri February 1, 2013
Commentary

Gary Borders: On covering the Columbia disaster, the local angle

Credit Andrew Brosig
Two National Guardsmen stand over a piece of the Columbia Shuttle that landed in downtown Nacogdoches on Feb. 1, 2003.

Commentator Gary Borders recalls the fateful day when the Space Shuttle Columbia rained down over East Texas.

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