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Interesting story about the private planes of astronauts - for us Houstonians, we see some of these around town:


http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/My-Other-Vehicle-Was-a-Spacecraft.html



It appears that the Tiger is by far the most popular production plane in this limited survey.  Astronaut Steve Negal is featured for his C-172, however, most of the column about him features the brilliant judgement of his astronaut-wife Linda Gowdin to own a Mooney :).


http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/My-Other-Vehicle-Was-a-Spacecraft.html?c=y&page=9&navigation=previous#IMAGES


And as a local at Pearland airport (LVJ), I will re-title this photo, with all due humor,  "Hm, I wonder if the self-serve fuel pump with the over-priced fuel is going to work today."


http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/My-Other-Vehicle-Was-a-Spacecraft.html?c=y&page=7&navigation=next#IMAGES

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I'm adding several JATOs to my Mooney and planning my own space flight. Clime to FL18 with the engine then light the JATO I figure by the time I get past Vne I'll be high enough and the air thin enough that it will not matter.    :-))
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Bought mine from a NASA astronaut in 2009. He was the pilot on STS-98 and mission commander on STS-116 and STS-127. He had to sell due to a permanent change of station to Star City, Russia where he is the Director of Operations at the Cosmonaut Training Center.  He still works for NASA.  


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Bought mine from a NASA astronaut in 2009. He was the pilot on STS-98 and mission commander on STS-116 and STS-127. He had to sell due to a permanent change of station to Star City, Russia where he is the Director of Operations at the Cosmonaut Training Center.  He still works for NASA.  

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