NASA’s three women present were Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, the launch director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program, Jennifer Kunz, acting deputy director for NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center (an
he was born in London, Ontario. Though Artemis 2 will be his first time in space, Hansen served as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater lab in 2014 and took a turn as a "cavenaut" as part of the European Space Agency's CAVES astronaut training ...
That said, he has extensive experience with the space program working in remote environments and has held many senior management positions. Large projects include managing the training schedules of the entire 2017 astronaut class (Canadians and Americans alike, a first for Canada), advising Canadian ...
They will join the active astronaut corps, beginning careers in exploration that may take them to the International Space Station, on missions to the Moon under the Artemis program, or someday, Mars. Pictured from left are: Kayla Barron of NASA, Zena Cardman of NASA, Raja Chari of NASA, ...
He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 1963 and assigned to Gemini 9, but died in an airplane crash during training for his first spaceflight. He is memorialized on the Space Mirror Memorial, The Astronaut Monument, and the Fallen Astronaut memorial plaque, placed on the Moon during the ...
Sought recruits for the next class offlight directorsand announced plans for the agency’s first twoprivate astronaut missionsto the International Space Station. The Axiom Mission 1 crew has been training at NASA facilities in advance of thefirst flight, targeted for February 20...
Training alongside the NASA astronaut candidates for the past two years were two Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronauts who also participated in the graduation ceremony. NASA’s new astronauts are: Kayla Barron, a U.S. Navy lieutenant, originally is from Richland, Washington. She graduated from ...
While in the Astronaut Office, Boe’s technical assignments included serving as the NASA director of operations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and as the deputy chief of the Astronaut Office. He earned a Bachelor of Science in astronautical engineering from the U...
The Artemis II Mission will fly 4 astronauts, NASA astronaut commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, around the Moon and back to Earth. The crew will fly Orion to 8,889 km beyond the Moon before completing...
FILE - In this Friday, May 20, 2011 file photo, NASA astronaut Doug Hurley says goodbye to his wife, astronaut Karen Nyberg, as she leaves Houston for training in Russia. At right is their 15-month-old son, Jack. The two-astronaut family isn’t something that the early astronauts would...