Tag Archives: Astronauts

The Inside Story of the First Untethered Spacewalk

The first space shuttle mission of 1984, the launch of Challengeron the cool, windless morning [...]

Seven Scientific Discoveries From 2022 That May Lead to New Inventions

The natural world is teeming with sources of inspiration for technological advancement. Evolution has shaped [...]

What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission

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Apollo at 50: We Choose to Go to the Moon

Apollo’s Legacy SMART NEWS Scientists Prove That Plants Can Grow in Soil From the Moon [...]

Our Friend Al Who Went to the Moon: Remembering Al Worden

Al Worden visits his Apollo 15 spacesuit at the National Air and Space Museum. Al [...]

Redefining How NASA Gets into Space

Space X’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, which is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The end [...]

Five Things We Learned from Victor Glover

NASA astronaut and Pilot Victor Glover launched from the International Space Station on the agency’s [...]

A Monumental Portrait of NASA Astronaut Stephanie Wilson Crops Up in Atlanta

While most artists measure their artworks in inches, Stan Herd measures his in acres. For [...]

Inside the Experiment to Create Mars on Earth

When Cassandra Klos was growing up in rural New Hampshire, it was easy to see the [...]

The ISS Will Fall From the Sky After the End of the Decade. What Will Replace It?

Right now, the International Space Station is orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes from around [...]