Who Was Bruce McCandless II? First Person to Spacewalk Untethered in Space
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to spacewalk untethered, floating freely from the Challenger space ...
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NASA's rarely seen moon walk footage has people questioning if any of it was real
Long before Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams got stuck on the space station, Apollo 11 astronauts were having their own ...
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Space and Opportunity
OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - Dr. Bernard Harris, Jr., the first African American to walk in space, reflects on his 30-year ...
New Beginnings in Space As Astronauts Step Into Their Zero-Gravity Home
Four new astronauts of Expedition 72 are settling into their orbital home, taking over from Crew-9, who splashed down near ...
Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
RETRO FIND: Sally Ride, first American woman in space, inspired generations to reach for the stars
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history as the first American woman to journey into space, soaring aboard the shuttle ...
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Growing lettuce, setting 62-hr spacewalk record: What NASA astronaut Sunita Williams did in space during ISS stay
Sunita Williams ventured outside the space station for a spacewalk on January 16, 2025, for the first time since arriving ... Elon Musk to bring back American astronauts - Sunita Williams and ...
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Trump’s ‘America First’ policies targeting South Korea: acting president
[SEOUL] South Korea’s acting President Choi Sang Mok said on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies had started targeting his country. Choi said discussions with the United ...
Business Times17d
US markets are trailing the world as aura of America first fades
[NEW YORK] Across financial markets, America is no longer first. Just weeks ago, investors were hailing Donald Trump’s return to the White House as a reason to bet that his blend of tax cuts and ...
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Italian makes country's first space walk
(ANSA) - Rome, July 9 - Luca Parmitano became the first Italian astronaut to take a space walk on Tuesday. It is the first of at least two scheduled space walks for the 36-year-old Sicilian ...
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Astronauts take epic 200th spacewalk outside the International Space Station
extending her record as the American woman with the most spacewalks in history. You can watch the remainder of the spacewalk in the window below. The Friday spacewalk marks Fischer's first walk in ...