Ready for liftoff: reservist astronaut counting down the days until he blasts into space.(Mike Fossum)

From: Citizen Airman | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: Joyner, Bo | Copyright information

One day this summer, a 48-year-old Air Force Reservist is scheduled to join one of the most elite clubs on this planet--the alliance of men and women who have traveled into space.

Lt. Col. Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut and individual mobilization augmentee assigned to the F-16 System Program Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, will be on board Atlantis for space shuttle mission STS-121 when it blasts off some time between July 10 and Aug. 1. As a mission spe...

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