[MilCom] Fwd: [MilRadioComms] Retired astronaut Poindexter dead

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_http://www.floridatoday.com/viewart/20120702/NEWS01/120702001/Alan-Poindext
er-astronaut-killed-jet-ski_ 
(http://www.floridatoday.com/viewart/20120702/NEWS01/120702001/Alan-Poindexter-astronaut-killed-jet-ski) 
 
PENSACOLA — Officials in Florida say a retired  astronaut died in a jet ski 
crash off Pensacola Beach. 
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission  officials say 
51-year-old Capt. Alan G. Poindexter was riding on a jet ski with  his 22-year-old son 
Sunday afternoon when his 26-year-old son crashed into them  with another 
jet ski. 
The Pensacola News Journal reports Zachary Poindexter hit the rear of the 
jet  ski, knocking his father into the water. 
Wildlife agency spokesman Stan Kirkland says Poindexter was pulled from the 
 water and taken to the beach where friends performed CPR. He died a short 
time  later at a hospital. Zachary Poindexter and his brother Samuel were 
not  injured. 
The fish and wildlife agency is investigating the crash. 
Poindexter piloted the Atlantis space shuttle in 2008. 

AL STERN  Satellite Beach  FL
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