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Meet the latest Hokie heading up the flight desk at NASA

In June, Garrett Hehn was named one of seven new flight directors at NASA. Photo courtesy of Garrett Hehn.
Posted over 1 year ago in Virginia Tech News .

Have you heard the story about the flight director who missed his first flight to NASA?

It’s a tale Garrett Hehn’s mother, Amy Hehn, will likely not forget.

“He goes to check in early online, and he looks at me and goes, ‘The plane is taking off right now,’” Amy Hehn said of that day in 2014. “So there he is, it’s like 2 in the afternoon, and it was amazing. He and I start moving – it was like a dance, but there were no words. He got himself rebooked. I ironed his clothes. And he was packed and out the door in a half hour.”

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