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 MORAGA, Calif. (AP) - The astronaut who pulled off the first inflight repair of a shuttle's underside designed homemade aircraft as a boy and dreamed of flying in outer space, people in his hometown said Wednesday.
Stephen Robinson, 49, has been fascinated his entire life by flight and was always drawn to work at NASA. He grew up idolizing John Glenn and then cruised in space with him in 1998.
On the shuttle, he is carrying a lunch box from the TV show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet," which he once used for sandwiches at elementary school.
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