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Thursday, August 9, 2018
Vol. 62 No. 32
Four generations of service By Robb Lingley
21st Space Wing Public Affairs
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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — Staff Sgt. Jordan Cisna, 21st Medical Group aerospace medical technician, stands with his wife and family in front of a C-130 after his father’s retirement ceremony at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, Nov. 3, 2017. The Cisna family has been serving in the Air Force since its inception in 1947.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. – In 1947, William Cisna enlisted in the Air Force during its first year of existence. Four generations and 71 years later his family continues to serve. Staff Sgt. Jordan Cisna, 21st Medical Group aerospace medical technician, is the sixth member of his family to join the Air Force. He currently works for the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado and is the fourth generation in his family to join the Air Force. “My grandfather James joined the Air Force to follow in his father’s footsteps,” said Jordan. “My father later joined to follow his father and keep the family tradition alive.” To this day Jordan, his brother and cousin continue on with the family legacy. Joining the Air Force was never pushed on Jordan. His family let him make his own decisions on what he wanted to do with his life. He knew his family had great pride serving in the Air Force so he decided to follow the path of his family’s legacy. “I joined the Air Force because I wanted to travel and uphold our family’s generational heritage,” said Jordan. “At first I didn’t know if I wanted to join even though growing up in the military was all I knew. I went to college for a year but it didn’t work because there was no structure.” “Both my mother and father were in the Air Force,” said Jordan. “Like me they were both aerospace medical technicians as well. To me, that See Four generations page 8
NASA assigns crews to first test flights, missions on commercial spacecraft By NASA
NASA introduced to the world on Friday the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011. “Today, our country’s dreams of greater achievements in space are within our grasp,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “This accomplished group of American astronauts, flying on new spacecraft developed by our commercial partners Boeing and SpaceX, will launch a new era of human spaceflight. Today’s announcement advances our great American vision and strengthens the nation’s leadership in space.” The agency assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. NASA has worked closely
with the companies throughout design, development and testing to ensure the systems meet NASA’s safety and performance requirements. “The men and women we assign to these first flights are at the forefront of this exciting new time for human spaceflight,” said Mark Geyer, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “It will be thrilling to see our astronauts lift off from American soil, and we can’t wait to see them aboard the International Space Station.” Starliner Test Flight Astronauts Eric Boe was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. He came to NASA from the Air Force, where he was a fighter pilot and test pilot and rose to the rank of colonel. He was selected as an astronaut in 2000 and piloted space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-126 mission and Discovery on its final flight, STS-133. Christopher Ferguson is a native of
NASA introduced to the world on Aug. 3, 2018, the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station — an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011. The agency assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The astronauts are, from left: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher See NASA page 13 Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.
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