Astronaut
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A Love of Space and Music

Drummer and astronaut Jim Wetherbee shares his love of music for a local fundraiser
Jaclyn Brandt

Bend is home to actors, musicians, artists, entrepreneurs and plenty of other talented people from all over the world. Jim Wetherbee is one of them, having moved to Bend after retiring. He has an especially unique story, even for Bend. Wetherbee spent more than 31 years at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as an […]

Posted inCulture

Houston, We Have A Speaker!

Fighter pilot and astronaut Charles Precourt brings the right stuff to TEDxBend
Avatar photo Phil Busse

Charles Precourt has had a front row seat to much of the history of the second half of the Twentieth Century. First, as a top notch Air Force pilot stationed near the Berlin Wall, at the dividing line between the two super powers. And then, in the ’90s, as an astronaut commanding the Space Shuttle […]

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