John Herrington
John Bennett Herrington (born September 14, 1958) is a retired United States naval aviator and former NASA astronaut. With his single Space Shuttle mission in late 2002 Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. William R. Pogue of Choctaw ancestry, was a crewman aboard Skylab 4 in 1973-74, however Pogue isn't an enrolled member of the Choctaw.
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