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Florida Today from Cocoa, Florida • Page 11A

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Florida Todayi
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Cocoa, Florida
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11A
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wn TODAY, Thursday, September IS, 1175 CHARLES DUKE going to sel beer Astronaut Corps Gets Thinner and Thinner i By NICHOLAS CHRISS TOOv Timn Nm ttnict HOUSTON Another exodus ofastronauu li taking place at the Johnson Space Center here as more of the, veteran spacemen leave (or greener payures one to sell beer, one in religious Crusades, oftj! to run for political office and one returning to a career in the Air Force. "We're alt looking for a challenge," said Astronaut program. Duke, 39, has been working on the Shuttle Program and making speeches around the country on behlaf of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He said he had waited two years for the beer distributorship to become available In the San Antonio area. In a recent interview Duke said "I don't think anybody would be leaving if the day-Charles- Dnker the latesf to ancrtomorrowwerauncfieoT leave the elite corps.

Duke will soon open a Coors beer distributorship in Texas. He is a man who took part in some of the most exciting moments in the U.S. space program to fly to Mars. "The thing that motivated me to leave, and the others I think. Is to take on a new challenge In my life." NASA has been steadily 'The thing that motivated me to leave, and the others I think, is to take on a new challenge in my Astronaut Charles Duke losing its veteran astronauts since the last moon flight, Apollo 17, in December 1972.

Most of the men leaving are in their early 40s, highly motivated, ambitious, intelligent and accustomed to hard work. will be 3i 4, maybe 4" years, before the next flight, the shuttle, and no one expects these guys to sit around the center marking time," a space program veteran familiar with the astronauts said. The current exodus is the heaviest the space center has seen in such a short time. It Includes Duke, MaJ. Gen.

Thomas B. Stajford, 43. Wil liam R. Pogue, 43, and Harrl son Schmlit. 40.

Stafford is leaving Nov. 1 and Duke is leaving in December. Pogue and Schmitt left recently. Stafford, as has previously been announced, will bVcdme commander of the Test Flight Center at Edwards" Air Force Base, Calif. Schmitt was the first and only scientist astronaut to take part in a moon mission, that of Apollo 17.

'Ije returned to his home state, New Mexico, to run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate. Pogue has become a vice president for High Flight, an inter dvnomlrtationat evange listic foundation headquart erfrf In fnlnrarid Spr High Flight was founded by another astronaut, James B. Irwin, and is $123,000 in debt after staging a huge crusade to which' all Vietnam POWs were invited with ex penses paid after the South east Asia conflict had ended. Another former astronaut who recently resigned from NASA has alio joined High Flight as a vice president', lie Is Alfred M.

Worden, 43. By the end of the year, the astronaut corps will be down to its lowest number. 29 In the interview, Duke pontedjout what has bothered many of the astronauts: rati nf.tlw people. de parting have finished their military commitment. They've devoted at least 10 years to this (NASA) and they're looking downstream at about 4 years before the next opportunity fly.

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