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NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, the newest member of the Atlantis crew, is celebrating her 47th birthday today aboard the International Space Station.
Stott, who grew up in Clearwater and graduated from Clearwater High School in 1980, is finishing a three-month tour on the station.
She officially switched from the station's Expedition 21 crew to the Atlantis crew after the shuttle docked Wednesday.
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Stott is a former Kennedy Space Center shuttle program engineer who once oversaw the preparations of Endeavour for flight. The mother of one son became an astronaut in 2000.
She is the third former Kennedy Space Center employee-turned-astronaut to fly in space, following Kay Hire and Joan Higginbotham.
Stott flew to her station assignment aboard shuttle Discovery, which launched Aug. 28 and docked Aug. 30.
Her trip home on Atlantis will be the last by a station resident on a shuttle. Until a new U.S. vehicle is ready, they'll taxi to and from the outpost on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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