Astronaut Readies United Way for Liftoff This Year

By Eric Pera

THE LEDGER

Thursday September 22, 2011

LAKELAND | Facing an economic climate still rutted in uncertainty, United Way of Central Florida has enlisted one of NASA's most celebrated astronauts to, well, light a fire.

Story Musgrave, who helped fix the Hubble space telescope in 1993, pepped up an audience of about 200 Wednesday morning at Lakeland's Florida Air Museum, one of three stops to inaugurate United Way's 2011-12 campaign.

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