Illini pilot says he'll wear hockey jersey on space shuttle
Col. Lee Archambault is wearing an Illini hockey game jersey, circling the globe aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.
The astronaut spent six years at the University of Illinois, playing hockey, dating Kelly Raup and earning two engineering degrees.
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