[COUPERS-FLYIN] Astronaut restoring Ercoupe

[Ed Burkhead]

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The Museum of Flight (near Seattle) is pleased to announce the selection of NASA astronaut Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., as its new president and CEO.

 

A veteran of five space missions, Dunbar has logged 1,208 hours - - more than 50 days -- in orbit aboard the shuttles Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia and Endeavour.

 

Dunbar has been a licensed private pilot since the 1970s, and has logged more than 1,000 hours as co-pilot in NASA's T- 38 jets. She owns and is restoring a 1946 Ercoupe light plane.

 

The independent, non-profit Museum of Flight is one of the largest air and space museums in the world.

 

Full story:

http://www.rednova.com/news/space/247363/astronaut_dr_bonnie_dunbar_named_new_museum_president_northwest_native/index.html?source=r_space

or

http://tinyurl.com/a7nsz

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