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After she was released from jail in the early 1990s, Ray's attentions shifted to astronaut Story Musgrave, to whom she wrote letters, made telephone calls, and sent packages. In 1994, she posed as a reporter and interviewed him at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. In September 1997, she showed up at his home in Osceola County, Florida. She ...
The class of 1996, the 16th group of NASA astronauts, was the largest selected since the first class of Space Shuttle astronauts in 1978, which also numbered 35. They were ordered to report for duty at Johnson Space Center to commence their astronaut training on August 12, 1996. [2] [28] They were joined by nine international astronauts. [29]
Canada has sent two women to space. Roberta Bondar was the first Canadian woman to fly in space, on the Space Shuttle Discovery in January 1992. [91] The second Canadian woman astronaut is Julie Payette from Montreal. Payette was part of the crew of STS-96, on the Space Shuttle Discovery from May 27 to June 6, 1999.
Emily Calandrelli has issued a response to the “small men on the internet” who belittled and sexualized her after she became the 100th woman to go to space. The female astronaut and MIT ...
Recently released photos of two NASA astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have caused health concerns to rise. Although Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore were ...
A NASA astronaut is being accused of multiple crimes committed aboard the International Space Station (ISS), according to The New York Times. Anne McClain, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army ...
The four astronauts of STS-131 and Expedition 23 (Wilson to the bottom right), the first time four women being at the same time in space. [20] STS-131 (April 5–20, 2010) was a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Space Shuttle Discovery was launched pre-dawn from Kennedy Space Center.
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3] She returned to Earth in Kazakhstan on October 30, 2016, aboard a Soyuz. [4]