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"For Endeavour pilot Hurley, racing is out of this world
By Rick Houston, Special to NASCAR.COM
August 19, 2009
01:40 PM EDT

Doug Hurley had a few spare minutes, so he did what any NASCAR fan might do. He popped a DVD into a nearby computer and watched a snippet of Dale Earnhardt steering his way to victory in the 1998 Daytona 500

It was the most ordinary of rituals, played out in the most extraordinary circumstances. Thing is, Hurley wasn't sitting in his living room kicked back in his favorite recliner. He was docked with the International Space Station (ISS), about 250 miles above the Earth, traveling at a little more than 17,000 mph. Consider it just another first for America's space program:

• First American in space: Alan Shepherd.
• First mission to orbit the moon: Apollo 8.
• First person to walk on the moon: Neil Armstrong.
• First astronaut to watch NASCAR footage in space: Doug Hurley."
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