The Columbia crew was not presumed to be fearless. But because NASA's selection process guaranteed that they had the "real stuff," they had learned to put their feelings about the dangers of ...
PHILADELPHIA -- Space shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson and his crew took a small but crucial step for space travel recently, enlarging the International Space Station so it can house six ...
NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates who are set to train for missions to the Moon and potentially for Mars. Their selection represents an assessment of both their talent and ambition. Are ...
Unofficially they called themselves the TFNG, or the Thirty-Five New Guys. Officially, they were NASAs Group 8 astronauts, selected in January 1978 to train for orbital missions aboard the Space ...