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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Space Shuttle Endeavour Launched From NASA’s Kennedy Space Center May 7, 1992
08 May 2024 00:58 GMT
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The … a new perigee kick motor. (NASA Image)
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – … Space Shuttle Endeavour Launched From NASA’s Kennedy Space Center … was performed by astronauts Kathryn C. Thornton and Thomas D. Akers as part …
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Dr. Sandra Magnus, S&T grad and former NASA astronaut, elected to National Academy of Engineering
10 Feb 2022 22:57 GMT
… and Technology and former NASA astronaut who spent over four … she was selected for NASA’s Astronaut Corps.
Magnus flew her … Vegge, Téa Thomas and Matt Lowe.
Magnus left NASA in 2012 … careers as NASA astronauts. The others are Col. Tom Akers, who earned …
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Astronaut talks to Ward students about his adventures in space
05 May 2023 20:06 GMT
… general, test pilot and NASA astronaut, visited Bishop Ward … general, test pilot and NASA astronaut, visited Bishop Ward … astronauts Richard J. Hieb, Kevin P. Chilton, Daniel C. Brandenstein, Thomas D. Akers … to become a NASA astronaut and was selected …
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Janet Kavandi selected for US Astronaut Hall of Fame
10 Jan 2019 19:32 GMT
… various leadership capacities with NASA and is currently director … of NASA’s John H. … was selected as a NASA astronaut in December 1994 as … Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA); and Thomas Dale Akers, from Eminence, Missouri …
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Astronaut Story Musgrave Talks Imagination And Ingenuity
03 Mar 2018 02:23 GMT
… Musgrave gets assistance from astronaut Thomas D. Akers while suiting up for the … Telescope (HST) servicing mission. Photo: NASA
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Endeavour: NASA's youngest space shuttle
11 Dec 2017 22:34 GMT
… greatest tragedy. Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space … name on advice from the NASA administrator. Two schools — … as Richard Hieb and Thomas Akers attached themselves to the … gestures as instructions to the astronauts inside the shuttle, the …
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STS-61, the First Hubble Servicing Mission
06 Dec 2023 11:04 GMT
… F. Story Musgrave, and Thomas D. Akers to the STS-61 first … March 16, 1992, NASA named Musgrave, an astronaut since 1967 and a … 61. On Aug. 28, NASA named Hoffman, Akers, and Thornton as the … with additional computer memory, Akers and Thornton finished the 6 …
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Hubble’s Spectacular Comeback: 30 Years of Stellar Clarity
03 Dec 2023 12:19 GMT
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The shuttle’s crew of seven astronauts was aware … complex spacewalking missions ever attempted, astronauts conducted five extravehicular activities, totaling … , mission specialist; and Thomas D. Akers, mission specialist. Credit: NASA
At 1 a …
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NASA's Space Shuttle: the history of the reusable spacecraft and its lasting legacy
… mission, December 1993. Credit: NASA
Space Shuttle astronauts worked from the ten … Telescope. Credit: NASA
In doing so, NASA and its astronauts about-turned negative … -person spacewalk (Richard J. Hieb; Thomas D. Akers; Pierre J. Thuot)
First …
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Missouri S&T graduate to receive 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
23 Sep 2019 17:13 GMT
… Nov. 3, at NASA Ames
Research Center in Mountain … Curators’ Scholarship,” says Dr. Thomas Vojta, Curators’ Distinguished Professor … alumni such as Baganoff; NASA astronauts Thomas Akers, Dr. Janet Kavandi and … Dr. Sandra Magnus; NASA scientists Ron Epps and …