Astronaut Taking Raider Pride to Outer Space

You may have heard the inspiring story of Jose Hernandez, who grew up a migrant worker in San Joaquin County, didn't learn English until he was 12, and is now a NASA astronaut preparing to blast off in the Space Shuttle Discovery currently scheduled to launch at about 10 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday night. What you may not have heard that the guy is a lifelong, die-hard Oakland Raiders fan. And he's taking a Raider flag with him to plant on the International Space Station, 220 miles above the face of the earth, so the silver & black may be represented in the final frontier. Darth Vader couldn't be more pleased. The Raider organization is also pretty stoked. "We wish Astronaut Hernandez, the entire crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery and NASA all the very best with the upcoming 30th US Mission to the International Space Station," Raiders CEO Amy Trask told Raiders.com. "The Raider Nation is now represented not only across the globe, but throughout the galaxy." READ FULL STORY
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