John Young, NASA's longest-serving astronaut,died on Jan. 5 at his home in Houston when he was 87.He flew in space six times, walked on the moon, and commanded the first space shuttle I became the key figure in
On April 12, 1961, Russian astronaut YuriGagarin became the first person in space. He died only seven years later on March 27, 1968 in 1 air crash during a training session. On January 28, 1986, seven American 2 (astronaut)(five men and two women)died when the space shuttle Challenger...
HOUSTON, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The first astronaut to float untethered in space died Thursday in the U.S. state of California at the age of 80, confirmed officials of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Bruce McCandless II, originally from Boston, Massachusetts, ...
Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who snapped one of the most iconic images of the space age — a mesmerizing view of the blue-and-white globe of Earth rising above the moon's cratered horizon in the deep black of space — died Friday when a small plane he was piloting crashed...
The Space Mirror Memorial, which stands on the grounds of the John F. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, commemorates the lives of the men and women who have died in the space programs of the United States. In addition to twenty NASA career astronauts, the memorial includes the names of...
Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and 4.were some of the animals that first went into space. Many of them 5., but they helped to 6.space travel safer for humans. We shouldn't forget these animals.Albert II was the 7.monkey to go into space in1949. Sadly he died after his spaceship ...
"How did you decide to be astronauts 6 China's space industry (工业) is still at the beginning?" 7 a young woman. The astronauts said it was because of their love of flight and the need of the 8 . Right after lunch, Mother found she had got a cold. She did need a rest in ...
The mother of a NASA astronaut aboard the international space station died Wednesday when a train struck her vehicle.
Astronaut, designation, derived from the Greek words for ‘star’ and ‘sailor,’ commonly applied in the West to an individual who has flown in outer space. As of 2022, 587 individuals from 41 countries had gone into orbit; 518 of these space fliers wer
a retired Navy captain and son of a Medal of Honor recipient who joined NASA during the buildup to theApollo program, served as capsule communicator when Neil Armstrong took his historic first step on the moon and later flew in space twice during the shuttle program, died Thursday, NASA said...