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1 day ago · Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012) was an American astronaut and physicist.Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space, after cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
1 day ago · Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, retired astronaut, and United States Navy captain.A member of the Democratic Party, he has been the junior U.S. senator from Arizona since 2020.
3 days ago · NASA is accustomed to weighing the lives of its astronauts in its decision-making, and officials regularly talk about the ways the disasters of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 and the ...
2 days ago · After months of tests and debate, NASA decided test pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come back in a SpaceX capsule in February. Their empty Boeing Starliner capsule will attempt to ...
3 days ago · Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams may have to hitch a ride back down to Earth from the International Space Station on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in 2025, NASA announced Saturday.The $1.5 billion Boeing Starliner spacecraft, which got Williams and Wilmore onto the ISS, had “helium leaks and experienced issues with the spacecraft reaction control thrusters on June 6 ...
3 days ago · The two astronauts were only meant to be in space for eight days, but due to technical issues they won't return until 2025. ... Astronauts are also each given toiletry kits that come with things ...
3 days ago · The Boeing Starliner astronauts who are stuck in space will remain in orbit until February before returning home on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, NASA said Saturday. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams traveled to space on June 5 — 80 days ago — for what was supposed to be around a weeklong ...
