Aviator flew out of segregated schools and up into space

Photo courtesy of Winston Scott Scott, who is the senior vice president of external relations and economic development at Melbourne’s Florida Institute of Technology, grew up in Miami and attended segregated schools until his sophomore year in high school. The experience of segregation seems to be a sharp contrast to what he saw when he went into orbit on STS-72, Endeavour, and STS-87, Columbia.

Photo courtesy of Winston Scott
Scott, who is the senior vice president of external relations and economic development at Melbourne’s Florida Institute of Technology, grew up in Miami and attended segregated schools until his sophomore year in high school. The experience of segregation seems to be a sharp contrast to what he saw when he went into orbit on STS-72, Endeavour, and STS-87, Columbia.

Patrick McCallister
For Veteran Voice
Winston Scott’s life story is straightforward.
“I came out of the ‘hood, as they say, and I flew in space,” he said.
The Boys & Girls Club of Martin County recently announced the Navy veteran and Space Shuttle astronaut will headline the 2015 Distinguished Speakers Luncheon, March 2 at Sailfish Point Golf Club, 1648 S.E. Sailfish Point Blvd., Stuart. The luncheon will be noon to 2 p.m.
Scott, who is the senior vice president of external relations and economic development at Melbourne’s Florida Institute of Technology, grew up in Miami and attended segregated schools until his sophomore year in high school. The experience of segregation seems to be a sharp contrast to what he saw when he went into orbit on STS-72, Endeavour, and STS-87, Columbia.
“You see one Earth,” he said. “I won’t say ‘big Earth,’ because from space it looks awfully small.”
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