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//**Fernando Caldeiro **//
 * nicknamed Frank
 * Born June 12, 1958
 * Died October 3 in 2009, brain tumor
 * Had an associate's degree, bachelor degree, and a master's degree.
 * Very first Argentine Astronaut to be employed by NASA

//**OJ2 **//

Latinos in History  Fernando, or Frank, Caldeiro was an Argentine astronaut who lived from June 12, 1958 until October 3, 2009, losing to a 2 ½ year battle with a brain tumor. He worked as a test director for the Rockwell/USAF B-1B Bomber flight, production, and testing. In 1988, his life changed when Rockwell had transferred him to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Caldeiro worked as a “Space Shuttle main propulsion system specialist” He graduated from W.C. Bryant High School, in Long Island City, New York in 1976. He then attended State University of New York at Farmingdale from 1974-1978, and received an associate degree in applied science in Aerospace Technology. “He then received a bachelor degree in mechanical engineering, at the University of Arizona in 1984, and a master of science degree in engineering management from the University of Central Florida in 1995 (//Fernando Caldeiro//). According to ‘//NASA Astronaut Fernando//”, he was the very first person of an Argentinian descent to train for a space flight. His family had migrated to the US with him when he was sixteen years old, he didn’t know any English whatsoever.

As “//Astronaut Bio//” states, Caldeiro was hired in 1991 as a cryogenics and propulsion system expert for the safety and mission assurance office .  KSC had tasked him for many special assignments. He took part in 52 space shuttle launches in his eight-year run at KSC .  NASA then made a decision in 1996 to have Fernando as an astronaut candidate, and he arrived at Johnson Space Center later that year .  He was eligible to a flight assignment after two vigorous years of training and evaluation .  That next year, he was assigned to AOSOB (Astronaut Office Station Operations Branch), and served as lead astronaut of the ISS Environmental Controls and Life Support Systems . <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> He was involved for reviewing the MPLM Node 2, Columbus Module, and Cupola along with equipment checks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> He was included in the NASA Astronaut group 16, which were called “The Sardines,” he was a mission specialist along with 25 specialists <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Fernando Caldeiro had won nine different types of awards in his 18 years of service. According to “//Fernando Caldeiro,”// those nine awards included, Rockwell International Corporation Certificate of Commendation, Kennedy Space Center Technical Leadership Certificate. Then nine Group Achievement Awards, Kennedy Space Center Director Round Table Award, two Kennedy Space Center Superior Performance Awards. A Kennedy Space Center Public Affairs Certificate of Appreciation for Service, University of Central Florida Distinguished Alumni, and, most importantly, Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry Hispanic Scientist of the Year. Fernando was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve in the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans, under the president’s “No Child Left Behind” act, in 2002.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> I think that Fernando Caldeiro is an incredible example of a Latino in recent history. He came to the US at such a young age, and once he came here, he knew what to do. He immediately got into a high school, graduated and then attends three colleges for each one of his degrees. Once NASA picked him, his dreams were right in front of him, practically in the palm of his hand. Yet according to “//NASA astronaut Fernando”,// he never was assigned a mission… He told Orlando Sentinel, “//Flying in space, to me, has become more like, well, you know, you can’t chase something so much that you run it over. You can be obsessed by it and be miserable or you can say, ‘Well, this is an opportunity; I’m first in line in front of 350-million other people.//” And those words, are truly inspiring to those unsure of their careers, what they to be, who they to be and how to do everything you need to right.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Astronaut Bio: Frank Caldeiro" //Astronaut Bio: Frank Caldeiro (10/2009)//. Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. <http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/caldeiro.html>. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Astronaut Fernando “Frank” Caldeiro." //Astronaut Fernando “Frank” Caldeiro, KE4RFI (SK)//. ARRL, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. <http://www.arrl.org/news/astronaut-fernando-ldquo-frank-rdquo-caldeiro-ke4rfi-sk>. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"Fernando Caldeiro." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Caldeiro>. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">"NASA Astronaut Fernando "Frank" Caldeiro." //Headlines//. Space Fellowship, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2014. <http://spacefellowship.com/news/art14003/nasa-astronaut-fernando-frank-caldeiro-died.html>.
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