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Decades apart, Elgin father and son get similar NASA jobs

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Fifty-three years after his father worked on the NASA mission that sent the first humans to the moon, another Elginite is training to work the same job for a similar mission.In July 1969, John Hofstedt worked as a member of the recovery team for Apollo 11, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) mission that landed the first astronaut on the moon. The recovery team helps the astronauts when their craft splashes down in the ocean after returning to Earth. Now, his son, John David, was recently training to be on the recovery team for the upcoming Artemis mission, the ...

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