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… Two Purdue graduates are NASA’s newest astronaut candidates. Yuri Kubo, … also chosen for the same astronaut class. Fuhrmann, from … join the Cradle of Astronauts at Purdue, bringing the … Cradle of Astronauts began in 1959 when Virgil “Gus” Grissom, a 1950 …

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