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HOUSTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut Pam Melroy is leaving the agency to take a job in the private sector. Melroy, a retired Air Force colonel, is a veteran of three space shuttle flights and the second woman to command one.

NASA astronaut Pam Melroy is leaving the agency to take a job in the private sector.

To: SCIENCE EDITORS Contact: Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-4715, michael.curie@nasa.gov WASHINGTON, Feb.

The Grovetown Department of Public Safety now has an honor no other in the area does: a department patch that has orbited Earth.