ADA, Okla. (KXII) - This weekend 22 years ago, a Chickasaw citizen and U.S. Navy veteran, John Herrington, became the first citizen of an American tribe to fly in space. Herrington took the ...
RELATED: First Native American woman in space awed by Mother Earth The first Native American in space, in 2002, was now retired astronaut John Herrington of the Chickasaw Nation. Mann went into ...