On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
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But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
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Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
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After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
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