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T-38 CRASH: Two airmen eject to safety as their T-38C Talon II jet training aircraft crashes just north of Columbus Air Force Base at about 8:15 Wednesday morning. The crash came 10 years and one month since the last CAFB-related crash -- a T-38 on April 23, 2008 that claimed two lives. It's unclear if the pilots were trying to get back to the base when the crash occurred. The site is just north of the base near the intersection of old Highway 373 and the gravel Barton Ferry Road near what is co

Our #NewAstronauts have officially graduated! Chosen from a record-setting pool of more than 18,000 applicants, our newest NASA Astronauts completed two years of basic training in spacewalking, robotics, T-38 jet proficiency, International Space Station systems and more. Now, they may be assigned to missions destined for our orbiting laboratory, the Moon, and ultimately, Mars. Watch 🎥: https://go.nasa.gov/35NW5fs Read 📰: https://go.nasa.gov/30bjVkk | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Admin