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Saint John’s University Graduate Preparing for 2017 Space Station Trip
Army Colonel Mark Vande Hei, a 1989 graduate of Saint John's University is preparing for a trip of a lifetime. After years of hard world and training, Vande Hei got news last summer of his assignment to take off for the International Space Station in March 2017.