John Bennett Herrington (born September 14 1958) is a retired United States naval aviator and former NASA astronaut. In 2002 Herrington became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. (William R. Pogue is of Choctaw ancestry and was a crewman aboard Skylab 4 in 1973-74 but he is not an enrolled member of the Choctaw.)
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