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Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...
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The Story Behind the Most Terrifying Space Photo Ever Taken
Bruce McCandless II. Photo: NASA NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II stepped away from the Space Shuttle Challenger on Feb. 7, 1984, using a jet-powered backpack called the Manned Manoeuvring ...
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Who are the NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for nine months?
Stranded in space for months longer than planned, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni ... Their first flights were aboard NASA's space shuttle, followed by Russia's Soyuz capsule.
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How astronauts adjust when back on Earth after being in space
Astronauts Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist, and Butch Wilmore, pilot, work on the aft flight deck of Space Shuttle Atlantis during flight day two activities on Nov. 17, 2009. Being in ...
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Williams and Wilmore Are Not the First Astronauts to Be Delayed in Space
While they were in space, a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts on board in an incident that became known as the Columbia ...
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Astronauts who were stuck in space say they'd fly on Boeing's spacecraft again
Why were the astronauts stuck in space so long? Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships ...
‘Spacewoman’ Doc About First Woman to Command a Space Shuttle Mission Screens at CPH:DOX While NASA Axes Pledge to Land a Woman on the Moon
The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European ...