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Grand Rapids Native Joins NASA Astronaut Class
Grand Rapids native Christina Hammock, station chief at NOAA’s climate and atmosphere observatory in American Samoa, is among NASA’s eight new astronauts. At 34 she joins the 2013 candidate class, the second largest for NASA, after a multi phase process including interviews at Johnson Space Center. Hammock will train two years at Johnson Space Center before potential missions to near Earth orbit, an asteroid, and Mars.
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Grand Rapids
Christina Hammock
Hammock
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Climate and Atmosphere Observatory
American Samoa
NASA
Texas
Mars
Ronald Hammock
North Carolina
Barbara (Hamrich) Johnson
Maryland
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
N.C
Johnson Space Center
Houston