When he ended his career as an astronaut, he embarked on a successful political career.
ATK's boosters are already rated to carry humans into space, and the Ariane 5 was originally conceived as an astronaut launcher.
When else would we be able to share such delights as an astronaut triathlete, soft, color-changing robots and a recent response to a thirty-year-old alien broadcast?
ENGADGET: Alt-week 8.18.12: Graphene sponges, zero-g athletics and tweets in space
This was also his last flight as an astronaut.
FORBES: Neil Armstrong, First Man To Walk On Moon, Dead At 82
In my 11 years as an astronaut, everything was couched in terms of what we know, how the numbers shake out and whether or not people were comfortable with the idea that it was safe to fly this next mission.
He expressed deep concern that Nancy Pelosi would be, as Speaker of the House, two heartbeats away from the presidency, saying she is someone who is no more prepared to be Commander-in-Chief than he would be to serve as an astronaut on a lunar mission.
And the important thing is that you have a good, solid background in the technical fields -- the science, the technology, the engineering and the math -- to build on that, because once everyone comes and is selected as an astronaut, we all train generically for space flight, and then we train specifically for our mission.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama's call to the International Space Station
The SPHERES had to perform all of those tasks autonomously, just as spacecraft would, once an ISS astronaut activated their code.
He joined NASA as a research engineer 2001 and became an astronaut in 2004 after applying for 12 straight years.
Although her first ambition was to be an astronaut, she trained as a lawyer and had only a passing interest in Formula 1.
China also hopes to make its first moon landing within two years and to put an astronaut on the moon as early as 2025.
FORBES: U.S. Boldly Goes No More as China's Space Program Takes Off
Before he became an astronaut, Armstrong served in the Navy as a pilot during the Korean War.
FORBES: Neil Armstrong, First Man To Walk On Moon, Dead At 82
Space station commander Scott Kelly, whose identical twin brother Mark Kelly is married to Giffords and is also an astronaut, led NASA in a moment of silence Monday as part of the national observance for all the victims of Saturday's shooting.
应用推荐