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The director of NASA’s largest science center is leaving government
On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...
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NASA Research Mathematician Katherine Johnson
West Virginia native and West Virginia State University alumna Katherine Johnson played a pivotal role in NASA's missions to put men in space and on the moon. West Virginia State University President ...
Private spaceflight ends with splashdown for astronauts from India, Poland, Hungary
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A private spaceflight featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and ...
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50 years after a historic handshake in space, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project's legacy still resonates
The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...
In scathing letter, NASA workers rebuke ‘rapid and wasteful changes’ at agency
Current and former NASA employees have co-signed a declaration protesting changes at the agency that some say pose a grave ...
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July 18, 1915: The birth of John Glenn
John Glenn grew up in Ohio and joined the Marine Corps in 1943. He flew 59 combat missions in World War II and 63 in the ...