NASA astronaut Diaper
What do NASA astronauts do between missions? Until this week, I might have guessed modestly: training, book work, perhaps some checkers. Seedy love triangles and diaper-clad interstate crime sprees were fairly near the bottom of the list. No more. On Monday, astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak was arrested at the Orlando airport and charged with attempted kidnapping. Supposedly Nowak, who…
Astronaut Education
You probably think that all astronauts are basically the same - as long as you go through all that crazy training, you re good to go. Well, real life astronauts are a little more specialized than the ones in Armageddon. Kidzworld is here to give you the lowdown on who NASA sends into space and what they…
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An Astronaut
We re more than half a century along in the space-age . We ve all seen the surfaces of other planets and worlds, from Mars to Titan, Venus to Pluto. But time and time again it s our home world, Earth, that is guaranteed to stop us in our tracks. Using 24 hours of imagery from the Japanese Meteorological…
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Astronaut Patches
The first space patch was flown by Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on the Vostok-6 mission in 1963; however, that was hidden from public view by the bright orange coverall that was part of the space suit at the time. At the start of the manned ‘space age’, as a rule, astronauts were pilots from…
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Astronauts in Space (VIDEO)
Two Nasa astronauts, their spacesuits newly modified with snorkels in case of another water leak, floated outside the International Space Station for a second day as they continue the marathon three-day task of fixing the outpost s cooling system. The spacewalk is only the second for Nasa since July…
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Sunita Williams astronaut
And now the game where we invite on really impressive people who ve done interesting things so they can try to do something else. Sunita Williams, known as Suni around the Johnson Space Center here in Houston, has been on the International Space Station for so much time, she can float around with her…
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Famous NASA astronauts
Ever thought of becoming an astronaut? Who hasn’t? While military service certainly isn’t required to join NASA, it might help. 219 of the 330 current and former U.S. astronauts also served in the armed forces. Though they’ve mostly served in the Air Force and Navy, every branch has been represented…
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