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  • Billy Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’ 17 Jan 2025 09:08 GMT

    … rich in storytelling. Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, John Kennedy Toole, … heartbreaking sometimes. The Coens’ saddest … Thornton in 2001’s The Man … “No shit.” A confused guy … Thornton and Halle Berry in 2001 … I was the head of Nasa, I was an air traffic …

  • PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA Highlights Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space 29 Nov 2024 05:58 GMT

    … celebrate Thanksgiving in space NASA astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, … , and Kathryn C. Thornton, celebrated Thanksgiving aboard space … Expedition 1 crew of NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd, and … Expedition 3 crew members NASA astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, …

  • Floating Feasts: How Astronauts Celebrate Thanksgiving in Space 28 Nov 2024 23:12 GMT

    … Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer; and NASA astronaut Raja Chari. Credit: NASA Astronauts have marked … Story Musgrave, and Kathryn C. Thornton, celebrated Thanksgiving aboard space shuttle … The Expedition 1 crew of NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd, and Yuri …

  • Monument unveiled: honors native son/astronaut — and town’s former school, where he got his start 24 Nov 2024 04:05 GMT

    … a monument honoring native son William Thornton. Fittingly, the monument also pays … , Thornton became a physician, author, inventor — and most famously, the first NASA … -chosen astronaut from North Carolina. He served …

  • First NC astronaut to be honored with memorial today 22 Nov 2024 13:10 GMT

    … monument to honor the first astronaut from the Tar Heel state … being dedicated to Dr. William Thornton, an astronaut from the Town of Faison … . Thornton made history as the first …

  • Faison to unveil memorial for first NC astronaut 22 Nov 2024 18:16 GMT

    … reveal a memorial for William Thornton, the first astronaut from North Carolina, at … . on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. Thornton was born in 1929 and … physics. He was chosen by NASA in 1967 and participated in … to be, a place where Thornton played basketball.

  • Mary Sue Thornton 02 Mar 2024 00:44 GMT

    … to Murrell Howard Thornton and Sarah Harris Thornton. Mary Sue grew … Sue did programming for the NASA Apollo missions, and she … her aunt, Sue Bonner Thornton. She is survived by her … , Tays Oliveira Trammell; son, William Fonseca Trammell; and daughters Emily …

  • T-Minus: A river of stars, NASA’s next moon landing, and more 08 Dec 2023 18:51 GMT

    … light years long. Credit: William Herschel Telescope / Román … time since the 1970s. “NASA and its contractors made … These payloads will help NASA prepare for future crewed missions … successful,” said Astrobotic CEO John Thornton during a press briefing. …

  • Amazing Astronaut Stories From the Space Shuttle Program 15 Nov 2023 17:08 GMT

    … NASA In his new book Space Shuttle Stories, former space shuttle astronaut … A. Gardner, William E. Thornton Mission: Challenger’s … NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts … Jones American history astronauts Science Smithsonian …

  • Behind the Scenes at NASA: Supercomputers Empower NASA Mission Success 18 Apr 2023 11:18 GMT

    … air taxis. Using NASA’s powerful supercomputers, researchers … Federico Semeraro and John Thornton, NASA/Ames 3. … the northeast. Credit: NASA/William Putnam 4. Predicting … weather and climate to keep humans safe. NASA …

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