ASTRONAUT LANDS AT JETHAWKS GAME.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER - Former NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton Charles Gordon Fullerton is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and is currently a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California. will be the guest of honor and throw out the first pitch tonight as the Lancaster JetHawks commemorates the 33rd anniversary of the first landing on the moon. Fullerton, now a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. at Edwards, flew on two space shuttle missions <onlyinclude> This is a list of missions flown by space shuttles. As of 2006, only the United States has flown human spaceflight shuttle missions, in the Space Shuttle program, while the Soviet Union flew one unmanned flight of the Buran. in the 1980s, co-piloted two approach and landing tests of the prototype shuttle orbiter Enterprise, and served on the support crew for the last four Apollo moon landing missions. The ``Walk on the Moon'' tribute anniversary game will commemorate the July 20, 1969, landing of the lunar module Eagle by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ``Buzz'' Aldrin aldrin (ôl`drĭn): see insecticides. Jr. The JetHawks will be taking on the Visalia Oaks for the 7:15 p.m. California League contest at the Lancaster Municipal Stadium. Tickets are available by calling the JetHawks ticket office at (661) 726-5400 or by visiting the team's Web site at www.jethawks.com. Fullerton will be available to sign autographs during the evening in a NASA Dryden exhibit inside the baseball stadium. |
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