AFSPC to Honor Space Pioneers:

July 25, 2006

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Air Force Space Command plans to induct six space visionaries into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at a ceremony scheduled for Aug. 24. The inductees are retired Air Force officers: Col. Wilbert F. Craig III, Brig. Gen. Maurice A. Cristadoro Jr., Maj. Gen. Ben I. Funk, Col. Francis J. Hale, Lt. Col. Albert W. Johnson, and Col. Richard S. Leghorn.

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