SEE ALSO:At Republican convention, astronaut Eileen Collins will talk about 'making America first again' in space While Collins did not mention Trump's name, she did invoke both the Trump campaign's theme for the evening, "Make America First Again," as well as the campaign's overall slogan...
That year, NASA accepted women and people of color into the astronaut corps for the first time, and the new book "The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts" (Scribner, 2023) by Loren Grush shares the true firsthand stories of the female pioneers in that group. Grush...
“Space is a very hostile environment,” Basner says. “We always want astronauts to perform at their best in the sense that, you know, tiny mistakes can translate into catastrophic errors—in the worst case, to mission failure and loss of equipment and of astronaut lives....
SpaceX Dragon capsule arrives at launch site for Crew-10 astronaut flight to ISS (photos) ByJosh Dinnerpublished2 days ago The SpaceX Dragon capsule that will carry the next crew to the International Space Station has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center ahead of its March 12 launch. ...
* Rusty Schweickart, astronaut and co-founder of B612###As we dodge disaster, we might recall that it was on this date in 1957 that the space age– and the space race– began in earnest: Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union into earth orbit....
Artemis I, the first integrated flight of the NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, assembled and launched by Exploration Ground Systems, is the first mission of NASA’s Artemis program that will send the first woman and person of color to the Moon and humanity furt...
Meir, who wrote in her high school yearbook that she hoped to one day walk in space, said "I think another dream would be to go to the moon." "That's always the image I had from the very first drawing I did when I said I wanted to be an astronaut in the first grade, was st...
Anew reporthas been released by the agency’s Office of Investigator General which stated that the astronaut corps is shrinking, and it has not been like this since the 1970s. In fact, NASA has just 44 astronauts now which is alarming. It had a peak number of 150 astronauts in 2000. ...
Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott left behind a tiny metal statue called “Fallen Astronaut,” a memorial to the astronauts and cosmonauts who had died in the name of space exploration. However, we have to take the word of a mystery man that a second piece of art made it there. ...
"And in fact, we believe that everyone has a special talent that they can bring to our astronaut corps. And that is why we are so excited to announce that we are taking applications again." Related: How to become an astronaut On Tuesday, the 10 members of NASA's 23rd group of ...