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After Blue Origin's New Shepard flight, the question arose: what makes one an 'astronaut?'
After Blue Origin's latest New Shepard launch that featured an all-women celebrity crew, many are wondering, are they now ...
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Everything We Know About Kristen Stewart’s New Astronaut Show ‘The Challenger’
It was announced that the Twilight actress would be playing astronaut Sally Ride in a new limited TV series called The Challenger, based on the 2022 Meredith Bagby book, The New Guys: The Historic ...
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The Story Behind the Most Terrifying Space Photo Ever Taken
Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring Unit ...
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Astronaut Mae Jemison on making history in space and inspiring change on Earth: "What's above us connects us"
Jemison was part of the first group of astronauts chosen after the Challenger accident in 1987. During her eight-day mission on Endeavour in 1992, she became the first woman of color to travel to ...
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Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, speaking out at a news conference for the first time since returning to Earth after an extended 286-day stay in space, said Monday they did ...
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After Blue Origin's New Shepard flight, the question arose: what makes one an 'astronaut?'
The Astronauts Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit founded after the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger accident. The organization has a memorial wall at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida ...