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The Day Humanity Left Earth Behind Forever and Began a New Era in Space Exploration
The day went by really fast,” NASA astronaut Bill Shepherd told an interviewer in 2010. It was Oct. 31, 2000, and Shepherd ...
Trump honors space exploration on National Astronaut Day
President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...
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An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space
returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin ...
NASA astronauts step outside space station to perform the 5th all-female spacewalk
McClain, an Army colonel and helicopter pilot, should have taken part in the first all-female spacewalk in 2019, but there weren’t enough medium-size suits. The first women-only spacewalk was by ...