S.S. Alan Poindexter
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 15:05
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Four years after Alan Poindexter died in a tragic recreational water sports accident, he is being honored with the naming of a space station-bound cargo craft. Orbital ATK on Tuesday (June 7) announced it had christened its OA-5 Cygnus resupply ship for the late NASA astronaut. A veteran of two spaceflights, Poindexter helped to build and stock the International Space Station.
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