Note: You may also be looking for U.S. politician John S. Herrington, or for someone whose name is spelled John Harrington John Rowan Herrington (born 14 September 1958) is an American astronaut and a veteran of one space shuttle mission. He is the first member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Herrington was born in Wetumka, Oklahoma. He grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Riverton, Wyoming, and Plano, Texas where he graduated from Plano Senior High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs before receiving his commission in the United States Navy in 1984. He served three deployments in the Pacific region before being assigned as a test pilot. Herrington was chosen by NASA as an astronaut candidate in 1996 and flew his first space mission in 2002 as a mission specialist aboard STS-113. To honor his Native American heritage

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