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Commander of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission ... All soviet cosmonauts, all Space Shuttle missions, and all other astronauts who have been to space since the Apollo program have remained ...
Fifty-one years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging ...
Dr. James Newman, a former NASA astronaut, reflects on his career and the future of space travel during a visit to the Naval Postgraduate School.
NSF recently conducted a flyover near Cape Canaveral and obtained imagery showing the current status of construction and ...
"We landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a few miles away from where I picked strawberries as a kid," Hernandez ...
Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...
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What happens if someone dies in space?
Here is how death in space would be handled today: If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission – such as aboard the ...
Blue Origin's all-female 11-minute flight on April 14 reminds us that there's a long line of women who have been making ...
One moment occurred in 1984 when NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human to spacewalk or float free from any earthly anchor when he stepped out of the space shuttle Challenger and ...
The pad was originally used during NASA's Apollo era in the 1960s but was revamped to serve the space shuttle in the 1970s ... the history-making launch and landing in the window below: SpaceX ...
NASA's Apollo 13 mission, where disaster struck and an oxygen tank exploded, we take a look at some of the most harrowing space-related accidents ...