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Pat Duggins is News Director at Alabama Public Radio, and the author of two books about the space program, "Final Countdown: NASA and the End of the Space Shuttle Program," and "Trailblazing Mars: NASA's Next Giant Leap," both published by University Press of Florida. Duggins is known as the "voice" of NASA coverage on National Public Radio, providing coverage of 102 Space Shuttle missions, as well as flights by Russia, China, and other nations. This includes three hours of "live" radio coverage during Weekend Edition with Scott Simon following the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. This was Duggins' second Shuttle disaster, having covered the Challenger accident in 1986. Since the publication of "Final Countdown," he has spoken about the world's space efforts at Harvard University, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and on C-Span's BookTV.
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