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The World’s First Astronaut With a Physical Disability Is Cleared for Long-Duration Space Missions
Paralympian John McFall has passed all the required medical exams and is now eligible for future travel to the ISS with the ...
Starliner astronauts respond to Trump saying they were 'abandoned': 'We don’t feel stuck'
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams recently told CNN they want to "change the rhetoric" about the two astronauts being "stuck in space." ...
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John McFall: World's first disabled astronaut cleared for a space station mission
In 2022, he was chosen for the ESA's "Fly!" study, which examined the difficulties of sending an astronaut with a disability ...
'Goodbye Earth, hello moon': What Blue Ghost lander has been up to in NASA mission
The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...
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'We don't feel stranded': Astronauts 'stuck' in space set the record straight
"I think both of us will be a little bit sad when that feeling of space sort of leaves us." ...
St. Petersburg school celebrates legacy as Apollo astronaut returns for reunion
"I weighed 363 pounds with all my equipment, but up on the Moon, just 60 pounds — so you could really spring up!” ...
Apollo astronaut who landed on the moon honored at St. Pete school's alumni weekend
Charlie Duke was honored during Admiral Farragut Academy's alumni weekend 72 years after graduating. Sometimes a good mistake is exactly what you need to make a movie scene work. These bloopers and ...