By Chelsey Levingston, Dayton Daily News, Ohio Jul. 31--Fairborn High School graduate and NASA space shuttle pilot Col. Gregory H. Johnson will visit Dayton again and speak at the Dayton Engineers Club on Thursday Aug. 7.

By John Nolan Staff Writer FAIRBORN -- The only graduate of the Fairborn school district to wind up as a pilot of a U.S. space shuttle mission has given school officials a golden educational opportunity.

By Amelia Robinson Staff Writer WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- Air Force Col. Gregory H. Johnson can hardly wait to look down on the town he grew up in.

By John Nolan Staff Writer If all goes as scheduled, Gregory H. Johnson will be piloting the space shuttle in February, dangling another astronaut from the end of the spacecraft's robotic arm to do an exterior assembly project on the international space station.

To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Katherine Trinidad, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-3749, or Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, both of NASA WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-123.