News Archive / Tagged: astronaut

• Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden passes away

  Laurel KornfeldMarch 19th, 2020

  Alfred M. Worden, a former astronaut who served as the command module pilot of NASA’s Apollo 15 Moon mission, died in his sleep on Wednesday, March 18, at a Sugar Land, Texas, assisted living center, at the age of 88.

• Astronaut Owen K. Garriott passes away aged 88

  Joe LatrellApril 15th, 2019

  Skylab and Space Shuttle veteran Owen K. Garriott died Monday at age 88 in his home in Huntsville Alabama. The news was released by Garriott’s family to the Association of Space Explorers.

• India aims to send its first crewed mission to space by 2022

  Tomasz NowakowskiAugust 20th, 2018

  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled on Wednesday, August 15, an ambitious plan to send the first Indian to space by 2022. The announcement was made when he was addressing the nation during Independence Day celebrations at the historic Red Fort in Delhi.

• Veteran NASA astronaut Dan Burbank leaves NASA

  Jason RhianJuly 2nd, 2018

  After being tapped by the agency to be an astronaut in 1996 and spending some 188 days on orbit, Dan Burbank has decided it's time to hang up his spacesuit. 

• Plasma technology could help produce sustainable oxygen supply for human colonies on Mars

  Tomasz NowakowskiJanuary 30th, 2018

  A future human colony on Mars will need a sustainable oxygen supply for its operations in the harsh Martian environment. A new research conducted by a team of Portuguese-French scientists suggests that plasma technology could be the key to producing the necessary amount of oxygen for crew activities on the Red Planet.

• Astronaut Jack Fischer shares “Awesome” ISS experiences during visit to NASA Glenn

  Michael ColeJanuary 27th, 2018

  GLENN RESEARCH CENTER, Ohio -- Astronaut Jack Fischer's favorite word is Awesome. And why not? If your job consists of rocketing into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and spending 136 days on the International Space Station, the word awesome is probably an accurate descriptor.

• Untethered: Humanity’s first free flying astronaut, Bruce McCandless, passes away aged 80

  Jason RhianDecember 22nd, 2017

  The first person to conduct a free, untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II, has passed away at the age of 80. McCandless was a naval aviator and the son of a U.S. Medal of Honor recipient who served as the CAPCOM when Neil Armstrong successfully placed humanity’s first footprints on the Moon and who helped redefine what it was believed astronauts can do.