John Herrington is an American former United States Navy aviator and NASA astronaut who became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe, the Chickasaw Nation, to fly in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour mission STS-113 in November 2002. During the mission he performed three spacewalks to help continue assembly of the International Space Station, and he carried a Chickasaw Nation flag with him into orbit.
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1958-09-14
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September 14, 1958
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Chickasaw Nation and U.S.
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STS-113
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qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist
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John Bennett Herrington (Chickasaw Nation, born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States Naval Aviator, engineer and former NASA astronaut.
Associated With: NASA, Lead paragraph, associated-with
John Bennett Herrington (Chickasaw Nation, born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States Naval Aviator, engineer and former NASA astronaut.
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Herrington was selected as a mission specialist for STS-113, the sixteenth Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.
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