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'Human spaceflight led me to LeTourneau’: '09 grad part of flight control team for space station

"We’ve been planning for it so long that it doesn’t quite seem real.”

LONGVIEW, Texas — Among those watching Saturday’s SpaceX launch was a LeTourneau University graduate who works on flight control of the International Space Station — the Dragon crew’s destination.

For Misty Pearson, 34, the first launch of U.S. astronauts from U.S. soil since 2011 was a welcome sight. Pearson works for a NASA contractor at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Though now working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pearson said the launch was “very exciting. We’ve been planning for it so long that it doesn’t quite seem real.”

You can read more about this story from our partners at the Longview News-Journal.

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