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Army major becomes first reservist to receive rare Astronaut Device
Kate Rubins was floating in zero gravity miles above Earth in 2020 when she decided to join the Army. A little more than a year later, Rubins, already a biomedical researcher and astronaut ...
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US military practices rescuing astronauts from the sea (photos)
In late March (at the earliest), SpaceX's Crew-9 mission will return to Earth from the International Space Station with four ...
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I spent a year in outer space on the International Space Station. The experience still chokes me up — here's what my days looked like.
One day during my long career in the US Army, a senior Army astronaut came to an Army Space Operations conference looking to find someone to work in the astronaut office as part of an agreement to ...
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The Last Frontier
he practiced family medicine as an Army doctor. There, the seed that was planted in his youth sprouted this idea: why not apply to NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class? Rubio did just ...
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The Crew of Apollo 8
During Apollo 8, Capcom Mike Collins relayed news and sports scores to the astronauts during their flight, including one that had been played weeks earlier: "Navy, fourteen; Army, twenty-one." ...
Countdown to astronaut Tim Peake's appearance in the city
Britain's most famous astronaut will describe the wonders of space exploration when he visits the West Midlands later this ...