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January 19th, 2012

Space Foundation... Moving On Up...



Dr. Leroy Chiao
[SatNews] The Space Foundation welcomes an important addition to its leadership team....

....former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao, Ph.D., will serve in the newly-created position of Space Foundation Special Advisor — Human Spaceflight. Chiao flew on three Space Shuttle flights, a Russian Soyuz flight, and was the commander of International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 10, where he lived onboard the ISS from Oct. 13, 2004, to April 24, 2005.Chiao, who is based in Houston, will begin his work with the Space Foundation this month and will participate significantly in the annual National Space Symposium, to be presented by the Space Foundation, April 16-19 at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.