First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong dies at 82
First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong passed away after complications in hart surgery. Armstrong will always be remembered as the first human who walked on another…
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Space Station crew landed in Kazakhstan
A Soyuz reentry capsule with three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday, mission control said. Russian cosmonaut…
Astronaut Jerry Ross, First Seven-Time Flier, Retires
HOUSTON — Jerry Ross, the first person to launch into space seven times, has retired from NASA. In a career that spanned more than three…
Virgin Galactic Selects First Commercial Astronaut Pilot From Competition
Fifty years ago, an historic competition for the first pilots to fly into space yielded the Mercury Seven astronauts. Today, from an intense selection process…
ESA’s Swedish astronaut to return to the ISS
17 August 2009 ESA PR 19-2009. The launch date for the STS-128 mission to the International Space Station with Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled for…
ESA astronaut André Kuipers to spend six months on the ISS in 2011
5 August 2009 ESA PR 17-2009. As a result of the latest International Space Station Multi-Lateral Crew Operations Panel (MCOP) recently held in Houston, ESA…
AgustaWestland Test Pilot Selected For Astronaut Training
AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, congratulates Tim Peake, AgustaWestland Senior Test Pilot, on his selection by the European Space Agency as the first British astronaut to…
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