Topic: Piers Sellers

Earlier this year, astronaut Piers Sellers contacted Nobel-Prize-winning physicist John Mather to see whether or not he would be interested in lending his 2006 medal to the space shuttle Atlantis for his upcoming trip to the International Space Station.. Mather and his ...

The Most Well-Traveled Nobel in the Universe

On May 14, 2010, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis left for the International Space Station (ISS) on its 32nd and final flight, it carried some typical items on board: But a number of smaller articles made the 11-day journey as well, one ...
Six-man, all-veteran crew on space shuttle Atlantis' final flight, saving nostalgia for laterIt's an all-male, all-veteran crew for space shuttle Atlantis' final flight.Six astronauts are aboard for this third-to-last shuttle mission. NASA is retiring its three remaining shuttles so it can focus ...
It was a royal visit that gave the Queen the chance to experience an uplifting exchange with astronauts. The Queen, in a pale green hat, looked up at the giant screen showing three astronauts - the Russians Fyodor Yurchikin and Oleg Kotov ...

Queen makes history with NASA space link-up

It was a royal visit that gave the Queen the chance to experience an uplifting exchange with astronauts. The Queen, in a pale green hat, looked up at the giant screen showing three astronauts - the Russians Fyodor Yurchikin and Oleg Kotov ...

Soundbites

Astronaut Mike Fossum, during Saturday's space walk with Piers Sellers, marvelling at the view of the Caspian Sea from 350 kilometres above the Earth (MSNBC. com, 8 July) . "I feel like a bug on the end of a fishing rod out ...