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Wednesday May 16, 1945

Birth of Brewster Shaw Jr.

Is a retired NASA astronaut, U.S. Air Force colonel, and former executive at Boeing.

He was pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia in November 1983, commander of Space Shuttle Atlantis in November 1985 and commander of Columbia in August 1989. Shaw was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 6, 2006.

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