Topic: Houston (Texas)
Crew members on the International Space Station will make the first of two spacewalks this week to remove and replace a pump module on a cooling system that dramatically failed last week, NASA officials said Monday. The first spacewalk will begin at ...
We chat with Captain Jeremy Hansen, who is attending NASA's Johnson's Space Center in Houston, TX to learn how to be an astronaut.
Space shuttle Discovery crew includes 3 women, one of them a schoolteacher-turned-astronautThree women are flying aboard space shuttle Discovery. With another female astronaut awaiting them at the International Space Station, that makes for a record-setting four women in space at the same ...
Shuttle Endeavour crew includes musician, ex-shuttle launcher, 2nd-generation space worker The crew aboard space shuttle Endeavour includes an accomplished musician whose latest exploits are with the cello and steel guitar, an engineer who helped launch shuttles and a second-generation space program worker.The ...
Astronaut hangout in Houston area is sold, likely closing to make way for new developmentThe mission is nearly over for the Outpost Tavern near Johnson Space Center.The hangout in the Houston area has been sold and is closing after almost 30 years ...
Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts aboard the International Space Station delayed their second spacewalk Saturday after being jolted awake by a false alarm, NASA said.Mission specialists Mike Foreman and Randy Bresnik had just two hours of sleep before a depressurization alarm sounded around ...
The first orthopedic surgeon in space is flying aboard shuttle Atlantis, along with two former college football players, one of them an NFL pick, and the grandson of Amelia Earhart's personal photographer.A brief look at the six shuttle astronauts: He also will ...
All 7 astronauts on space shuttle mission are parents, have 20 children among themAll seven astronauts on space shuttle Discovery's mission are parents, and they have 20 children among themselves.The lone mom is the one who will be moving into the international ...
Texas machine shop owner pleads guilty to fraud for selling defective space shuttle partFederal prosecutors say a Houston-area machine shop owner has pleaded guilty to selling NASA a defective space shuttle part that if used could have resulted in the loss of ...
A piece of space junk from a Soviet satellite does not pose a threat to the International Space Station or the Discovery shuttle as it races through space to dock with it, NASA said. "We will not need to perform the debris ...
