First African-American to Walk in Space Tells Science Campers How Far Your Mind Can Take You
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By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Jun. 23--BEAUMONT -- In their first week living and learning at Lamar University, 48 middle school students have built robotic cars and learned about blood types. They studied water quality on boat rides at Shangri La in Orange.
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By Keith Whamond, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 6--If you were to take a poll of all the nearly 900,000 members of the Boy Scouts of America and ask them all what they'd like to be when they grow up, chances are that the top answer would probably be astronaut.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first paying female space tourist said Friday she felt a little queasy on her rocket ride to the international space station but she since has been enjoying every minute of her cosmic trip.
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NASA -- Venturing into the vacuum of space, with its extreme temperatures and the challenges of weightlessness in what amounts to a personal spacecraft, can never become routine. Yet humans have made more than 250 spacewalks, 142 of them by NASA astronauts...
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By Scott Richardson  BLOOMINGTON - Scott Altman was 10 years old and growing up in Central Illinois when he looked at the moon and realized someone was walking on its surface.   His imagination was fired. He turned his gaze even deeper into space.
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At NASA's planned lunar base, the first residents may mine the surface, build telescope arrays, and perform on TV. But first they'll have to learn how to walk.
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NASA scientists are studying autistic savant Kim Peek, hoping that technology used to study the effects of space travel on the brain will help explain his mental capabilities.
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By Mike Schneider  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams has now spent more time spacewalking than any other woman, setting the record on Sunday as she and a crew mate upgraded the international space station's cooling system.
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_ One of NASA&#39;s first astronauts, Oklahoma native L. Gordon Cooper Jr., was remembered at the Johnson Space Center as ``not too bad of a water skier, not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut.
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After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
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By Nolan Rosenkrans, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 23--Despite the remarkable technical feat of space travel and the high-level skills that astronauts need, being one isn't quite as prestigious as it used to be.
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Scientists are working on a tethering system that could help explorers with the prospect of walking on a surface without much sticking power.
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By Traci Watson  All through a 10-year wait to go to space, astronaut Lisa Nowak kept her cool. She reached orbit on the space shuttle in July -- and upon returning, her life went dreadfully wrong.
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Not content to simply stand in one place, NASA's mechanical astronaut has found not one, but two new bodies that will allow it&nbsp;to move across land and space.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria broke the U.S. record of most time walking in space Thursday as he and another astronaut did maintenance work outside the international space station during their third spacewalk in nine days.Lopez-Alegria surpassed the previous U.S.
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ORLANDO, Feb. 6 -- She prepared for the 950-mile drive from Houston with the discipline of someone who had flown 13 days in space. The steel mallet, folding knife and rubber tube were all catalogued on a handwritten list, police say. She had maps, she had bus schedules and she had a disguise....
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BACK in 1959, the seven men chosen to be the first Americans in space were trained on what Nasa called âairborne microgravity missionsâ.