First American female astronaut
Floating freely on the flight deck, Sally Ride communicates with ground controllers in Houston during her STS-7 mission in June 1983. Credit: NASA Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She made two shuttle flights, and later became a champion for science education and a role model for generations…
Apollo 7, astronauts
On Oct. 22, 1968, Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after 11 days in space. Though often overlooked, Apollo 7 was a significant mission. This first manned mission after the Apollo 1 fire not only got got NASA back on track to the moon, it proved the Apollo Block II spacecraft was fit to fly and become the workhorse of the whole program. Unfortunately, the mission was…
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Aerospace Aeronautical Astronautical Engineering
#1 Overall Score: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 4.9 $44, 720 per year (full-time) 3, 143 #2Tie Overall Score: California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA 4.7 $41, 790 per year (full-time) 537 Overall Score: Stanford University Stanford, CA $47, 073 per year (full-time) 3, 558 #4 Overall Score: University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI 4.6 $22, 868…
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Lance Bass astronaut
Pop star Lance Bass dreams of going into space have officially gone pop! The Russian Space Agency notified the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) today (Sept. 9) that the N Sync singer won t fly to the international space station next month. Bass had hoped to rocket away from Kazakhstan on Oct. 28, boosted by corporate sponsors and a seven-part television documentary…
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First Hispanic woman astronaut
Member of U.S. Congress: Joseph Marion Hernández, 1822, delegate from the Florida territory. U.S. Representative: Romualdo Pacheco, a representative from California, was elected in 1876 by a one-vote margin. He served for four months before his opponent succeeded in contesting the results. In 1879 he was again elected to Congress, where he served for two terms. U.S. Senator: Octaviano…
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List of Apollo astronauts
Tragedy struck on the launch pad during a preflight test for Apollo 204 (AS-204), which was scheduled to be the first Apollo manned mission, and would have been launched on February 21, 1967. Astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives when a fire swept through the Command Module (CM). The Apollo 1 astronauts were: Virgil I. Grissom, Jr., Commander…
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Astronauts information
Astronauts are persons trained to fly or operate systems aboard a spacecraft. Astronaut is the term typically applied to those who fly on U.S. spacecraft, whereas cosmonaut refers to crewmembers who have flown on Russian space vehicles. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected the first American astronauts in 1959 to pilot the single-seat Mercury spacecraft…
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