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Elon Musk and other fans pay tribute to legendary astronaut John Glenn
Many of his fans — including SpaceX founder Elon Musk and famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson — paid tribute to the astronaut and former U.S. senator after he died Thursday in Ohio at age 95.
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Apollo 11 astronaut who orbitted the Moon dies at age 90
Apollo 11 Mission “odd-man-out” Michael Collins died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 90, his family announced. When fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin landed on the ...
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Letters to the Editor - Three cheers for Lyda Hill, a student named Kate, Black astronauts
Sadly, two Black astronauts died in NASA programs — Ronald McNair, who first flew in 1984 and then perished in the Challenger disaster in 1986, and Michael P. Anderson, who died in the ...
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Starliner crew says they were unaware of any Musk offer for earlier return
A former NASA administrator and a pair of astronauts aboard the International Space Station said Tuesday that they had no knowledge of any offer from SpaceX that would have returned the agency’s ...
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First astronaut with disability cleared for space station mission
The first-ever astronaut with a physical disability has been cleared for a mission onboard the International Space Station, the European Space Agency announced on Friday. John McFall, a 43-year ...