[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11367]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        SUGAR LAND NATIVE NAMED A 2017 NASA ASTRONAUT CANDIDATE

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 20, 2017

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Loral O'Hara of 
Sugar Land, TX, a Clements High School Ranger, for being selected by 
NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class.
  Currently working as a Research Engineer for the Woods Hole 
Oceanographic Institution, Loral has an exceptional professional 
history, including working as a design engineer, mechanical technician 
and as a project engineer. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in 
Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas and a Master of 
Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. 
Loral will report for duty this August, where she will begin her two 
years of training as an Astronaut Candidate. Once done, she will be 
assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office while she awaits a 
flight assignment.
  On behalf of the Twenty-Second Congressional District of Texas, 
congratulations again to Loral for being selected as a NASA Astronaut 
Candidate. We are very proud of her and look forward to her 
representing TX-22 in space.