Alan G. Poindexter
Alan G. Poindexter
Alan Goodwin "Dex" Poindexterwas an American naval officer and a NASA astronaut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth5 November 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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Flying in space is risky. It will never be safe, and the best thing we can do is manage those risks. It's important for people, for human beings, to be in space because they're adaptable and because they're not pre-programmed software that can go off and do tasks that are appropriate for machines.
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I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.
hard headed pad
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.