Webthough his path from the gridiron to the heavens was riddled with setbacks and injury, leland persevered to reach the stars.

While training with nasa, leland suffered a severe injury that left him deaf.

Webleland melvin floats inside the international space station alongside astronauts stanley love (left) and rex walheim, (right) during melvin's first mission to.

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His loyalty paid off.

He was relegated to earthbound assignments but.

Webleland was relegated to earthbound assignments, but chose to remain and support his astronaut family.

Recovering partial hearing, he earned.

An astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances:

An astronaut's story of grit, grace, and second chances:

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