By Ellen Glover, Originally published March 16 Duane Carey, former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and NASA Columbia Space Shuttle pilot for a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and his wife, Cheryl, came to Westcliffe on March 9 to give the students at Custer County School a strong message: stay in school, rethink your future, and consider becoming part of the aerospace industry because it needs young and talented technicians. Carey’s young years were anything but easy. He and his single mother and siblings lived in a one-bedroom apartment in the projects of St. Paul, MN. His mother, who had three children by age 21, never finished high school and worked as a beautician. He told how he slept through high school because he was…