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[i]John Herrington, who orbited Earth six years ago, will get a different view as he rides a bicycle across the country. The former astronaut told legislators from 16 states at the Southern Leadership Conference of the Council of State Governments on Monday that the purpose of his trip is to get students interested in mathematics and the sciences. Many scientists who have been with NASA since the Apollo moon missions of the 1960s and early 1970s are retiring, Herrington said. Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, plans to leave Cape Flattery, Wash., on Aug. 13 and pedal his way southeast through Oklahoma until he arrives in Cape Canaveral, Fla. He plans to log about 100 miles a day and stop at several schools and Indian tribes along the 4,000-mile trip. Herrington, 49, who lives near Guthrie, will talk with students at a school near Ada and stop by the headquarters of the Chickasaw Nation, one sponsor of his trip, dubbed Rocketrek. He will write about his progress on a Web site, rocketrek.net, which is still being developed.[/i]
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