Astronaut William R. Pogue (1930-2014)
By David Darling Pogue served as the pilot for the third and final mission to NASA’s Skylab space station (Credits: NASA). Veteran... Read more →
‘We Were at War’: 45 Years Since Apollo 9
The Apollo 9 crew of (left to right) Jim McDivitt, Dave Scott, and Rusty Schweickart began training to support the D mission in 1966. Their... Read more →
What’s On the Space Menu? – Vegetables Grown in Space Deemed Safe to Eat
The History of Space Food The long quest for adequate nutrition in space has taken astronaut consumption from toothpaste tubes and gelatin coated... Read more →
Mishap Board Releases EVA Close Call Report
On February 26, the NASA board investigating the near-drowning of ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano on July 16, 2013 during an extravehicular activity... Read more →
Afronaut: Finding an African Space Hero
An Astronaut to Lead African Science and Development In the United States there are astronauts, in Russia there are cosmonauts, in China there are... Read more →
Lost Spacefarers: Astronaut Dale Gardner and Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov Die
This week has seen the deaths of two spacefarers: NASA's Dale Gardner, veteran of two Shuttle missions and Russia's Valery Kubasov who flew three... Read more →