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NASA Astronaut Thanks Nazdar Employees in Chicago

Astronaut Joan Higginbotham visits Nazdar, which supplies marking inks to NASA.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham spoke to employees at Nazdar, an industrial supplier for the U.S. space shuttle program, on Wednesday, April 4, to thank the employees for their contribution to the space program.   Higginbotham toured Nazdar’s Chicago manufacturing facility, gave a 30 minute presentation describing her work on the Space Shuttle STS-116 Discovery (Dec. 9-22, 2006), answered questions, and presented a commemorative plaque to Jeff Thrall, Nazdar CEO.  “This was a tremendous ...

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