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Posted: 08.11.2009 at 1:33 PM

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Col. Gregory H. Johnson will pilot the space shuttle due to launch in May 2010. / Courtesy: NASA

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Col. Gregory H. Johnson is from Class of 1984

Col. Gregory H. Johnson previously flew as a pilot on STS-123 in 2008. He was born in South Ruislip, Middlesex, United Kingdom, but graduated from Park Hills High School in Fairborn, Ohio.

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