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Byline: Michael Cabbage
Before the Columbia's Jan. 16 launch, the shuttle's astronauts sat down for interviews with the Orlando Sentinel.
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RICK DOUGLAS HUSBAND
Rick Douglas Husband seldom traveled with a Texas-sized entourage, but more than 1,000 of Husband's friends and neighbors journeyed to Kennedy Space Center in 1999 to see Amarillo, Texas' favorite son make his first flight to orbit aboard shuttle Discovery.
Some astronauts would have shunned the attention, but the 45-year-old former Air Force test pilot relished the chance to represent his hometown and said he hoped some of Amarillo's younger generation would take ...