William Shepherd

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William Shepherd ISS Advisory Committee Member Capt. William Shepherd, USN (Ret.), graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1971 and served with U.S. Navy Special Warfare units in the Pacific and European theaters. In 1984, he was selected as a NASA astronaut and flew on three space shuttle flights carrying satellites and scientific payloads to […]

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