03DEC 2024
Guy Gardner (astronaut)

Guy Gardner (astronaut)

Finally heads aloft on 2 December. The much-delayed ASTRO-1 had originally been manifested to fly on what would have been the next shuttle mission after Challenger s ill-fated STS-51L as STS-61E in March 1986. The mission was remanifested as STS-35 during the long stand-down after the accident with the addition of the Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (BBXRT-01), and the original ASTRO-1…

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27NOV 2024
Names of astronauts

Names of astronauts

Four veteran astronauts have been selected to train for launch aboard new commercial crew capsules being built by Boeing and SpaceX that are intended to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station starting in 2017, NASA announced Thursday. Station veteran Sunita Williams, along with…
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21NOV 2024
God is an astronaut

God is an astronaut

God is an Astronaut are a 4 piece band who hail from Glen of the Downs, Ireland. Currently one of the worlds biggest instrumental bands they took their name from a line in Clive Barker’s film ‘Nightbreed’. The band was formed by twin brothers Niels and Torsten Kinsella in 2002. After recording their…
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15NOV 2024
Accutron astronaut

Accutron astronaut

When I was 3 and a half years old, my parents made me watch the 1969 landing on the moon live on television. It is the earliest memory I can recall and I have been fascinated with space ever since. In my adult years, my love of watches naturally led to an appreciation of space watches and timepieces…
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09NOV 2024
Astronaut Program

Astronaut Program

Ever since President George W. Bush’s decision to retire the space shuttles in the aftermath 2003’s Columbia disaster, NASA’s human spaceflight program has been adrift. Bush told NASA to go back to the Moon. Obama canceled most of those plans, directing the agency instead to a nearby asteroid—a proposal…
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03NOV 2024
Which astronauts walked on the Moon?

Which astronauts walked on the Moon?

Edgar D. Mitchell, an astronaut who was spiritually transformed by his journey to the moon in 1971 and who devoted much of the rest of his life to exploring esoteric realms of science, psychic phenomena and the existence of extraterrestrial beings, died Feb. 4 at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Fla. He…
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28OCT 2024
The first astronaut in Space

The first astronaut in Space

British people will have their eyes on the skies today as astronaut Tim Peake begins his historic journey to the International Space Station. But Major Tim is not actually the first Brit to leave Earth s atmosphere. Helen Sharman, a high achieving chemist from Sheffield, became the first British citizen…
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