John Herrington Astronaut

John Bennett Herrington (born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. (William R. Pogue was of Choctaw ancestry and was a crewman aboard Skylab 4 in 1973–1974, but he was not an enrolled member of the Choctaw.)

Personal facts

John Herrington
Birth dateSeptember 14, 1958
Birth place
Wetumka Oklahoma
Nationality
Chickasaw

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