First American Indian Astronaut Headed for Space -- John Herrington will be flying with eagle feathers, arrowheads and Chickasaw blessings
On March 16, 1966, a staffed spacecraft made its first docking exchange in space. The Gemini VIII spacecraft—manned by the American astronaut Neil Armstrong—linked up withthe unmanned Agena target vehicle, marking the first time that two spacecraft linked together outside Earth’s orbit. 1966...
NASA astronaut Ed White carried out the first U.S. spacewalk on June 3, 1965, floating free of his Gemini 4 capsule at the end of a long tether. Isaacman said iconic photos of White floating against the backdrop of Earth and space were inspirational, but he and Gillis will not float ...
The STS-107 crew included the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and the first Indian-born woman in space, Kalpana Chawla. On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA lost contact with Space Shuttle Columbia during the final minutes of its reentry over Texas. Controllers spent several minutes trying to hail...
Axiom-4 crew includes first Indian space agency astronaut to travel to ISS Elon Musk voices renewed hope for first crewed Mars mission Firefly Aerospace to launch its first mission to the moon next week Boeing Starliner astronauts will stay in space a little while longer...
He said African American astronaut Leland Melvin first broached the idea while the two were working on "The Space Race," a documentary about the history of Black astronauts and engineers in NASA's space program. "This all happened in relatively short period of time," Dwight said. ...
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Rife with rapid-fire editing, spectacular astronaut-cultivated images presented both on video and in still photography (and for decades almost entirely unshared with the media or the public) and credible commentary courtesy of Ufology experts running throughout, you're going to be inspired to, ...
Named after the first American to orbit the world, John Glenn, the rocket towers over the company’s current New Shepard rocket, named for Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard’s 1961 suborbital hop. NASA will use New Glenn to send a pair of spacecraft to Mars in 2024. United Launch Alliance ...
A divided US Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to let President Donald Trump’s administration withhold payment to foreign aid organizations for work they already performed for the government as the Republican president moves to pull the plug on American humanitarian projects around the worl World ...