Former shuttle astronaut joins Las Vegas Spaceport team; STEM academy details emerging

Proposed Nevada spaceport chooses former astronaut to advise STEM Academy

Former shuttle astronaut Jose Hernandez, a California regent, will advise the program to develop flight engineers for future trips to space from the Las Vegas Spaceport.

Former shuttle astronaut joins Las Vegas Spaceport team; STEM academy details emerging

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A former shuttle astronaut is joining the Las Vegas Spaceport team as more details are released on the project's plans for a STEM academy. Jose M. Hernandez, a NASA astronaut from 2004 to 2010 who served as flight engineer on the Space Shuttle Discovery, logged 332 hours and 53 minutes in space, making 217 orbits of Earth and traveling 5.7 million miles. That mission was in 2009. Since then, Hernandez has continued a distingu…