When Anne McClain was in kindergarten, she innocently wrote a children's story about going into Space. She fell in love with aviation watching air shows at Fairfield Air Force Base in her hometown of Spokane, Wash., and dreamed of walking in Space.
Thirty years later, that dream became a reality with her selection to NASA's 2013 Candidate Class.
Now Maj. Anne McClain (USMA '02) is among eight candidates (four men and four women) chosen from a pool of 6,300 applications to prepare for missions that might include exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system.