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Bill Dana is one of the best-loved funnymen in America. He wrote himself into show business history in 1959 with the immortal line, "My name..., Jose Jimenez," and his fans haven't stopped laughing since. When America's Mercury Astronauts adopted Jose the Astronaut as their mascot, Dana took humor into outer space. Bill's greatest pride is that the first words spoken from the ground to an American entering space were, "Okay Jose, you're on your way." Bill is on the advisory board of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, has been acknowledged in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and inducted as the official Eighth Mercury Astronaut (Out of a possible Seven) at the United States Astronaut Hall of Fame at Titusville, Florida. |
