Astronaut Gregory H. Johnson Leaves NASAby Ben Evans 13 years ago
Gregory H. Johnson, a veteran of two space shuttle missions, has left NASA for pastures new. Photo Credit: NASAAlmost half a century ago, a grainy television picture of a man bouncing around on the airless surface of the Moon convinced a 7-year-old boy to someday become an astronaut. Gregory Harold Johnson was in Michigan, at his grandparents’ home, watching the black-and-white image of Neil Armstrong on the Sea of Tranquility. “I looked at my brother and sister,” Johnson later recalled, “and we were amazed. I said: Wow. I’d love to be an astronaut.” Thirty years later, in June 1998, he made the cut and was accepted into NASA’s 17th group of astronaut candidates. And ten years after that, in March 2008, Johnson found himself rocketing into space in the pilot’s seat of Space Shuttle Endeavour. It was the culmination of an adventure which illustrated how “a very short event … can have an incredible impact on somebody’s future.” (...)
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