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Astronauts

Individuals trained for space flight
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A cuff checklist from the Apollo 16 mission gives detailed instructions for collecting rocks and taking photographs during a lunar excursion.

The Fourth Crewmember

Armed with their checklists, the Apollo astronauts literally read themselves to the moon.
July 20, 2009 | By Matthew Hersch

The Artist and the Astronauts

As the first lunar explorers prepared to launch, artist Paul Calle was in the room, quietly sketching away.
July 17, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Space flight

Step Outside

Shuck the spacecraft. 182 spacewalkers have.
July 2009 | By Tony Reichhardt

John Glenn’s transcontinental F8U flight led to his selection as an astronaut.

John Glenn's Project Bullet

July 2009 | By George C. Larson, member, NAA

Australia at night, as seen by a military weather satellite. That

Did Australians light signal fires for the astronauts?

And would they have been visible from space?
June 24, 2009 | By Rebecca Maksel

"Amiable Strangers"

Three distinct personalities, one goal: reach the moon.
May 21, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

Buzz Aldrin

Unchanged

The myth of the spiritual spaceman.
May 21, 2009 | By Matthew Hersch

The pilot in his 100-horsepower Cassutt racer, in which he set world altitude and speed records.

The Man Who’s Flown Everything

Robert “Hoot” Gibson’s priorities: (1) Fly. (2) Fly some more.
May 2009 | By Robin White

The Mercury Seven: (from left) Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.

The Seven

In 1959, a group of military pilots became Astronaut Heroes overnight, and created an American icon that survives to this day.
April 07, 2009 | By Matthew Hersch

During a recent visit to the National Air and Space Museum, Gibson poses with models of some of his rides.

The Hoot List

All the aircraft the legendary pilot has ever flown.
March 17, 2009 | By Robert L. Gibson

Astronaut Walter Schirra during the 11-day Apollo 7 flight in October 1968. Schirra and crewmates Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham suffered flu-like symptoms, which many now believe were due to space sickness.

Sick in Space

It’s not just a problem for astronauts anymore.
March 09, 2009 | By Michael Klesius

The hardest working band in the space business, at the 2004 RE/MAX Ballunar Liftoff Festival.

Max Q Live

In space no one can hear you sing.
March 2009 | By Michael Cassutt

The recovery crew arrived five hours after the Soyuz landed.

If I Were to Land on Mars...

A small malfunction lands three astronauts on Russia’s version of the Red Planet.
November 2008 | By Don Pettit

One of these shuttle astronauts could get the call for a moon mission. Top to bottom, left to right: Terry Virts, mission specialists Robert Behnken, Karen Nyberg, pilots Jim “Vegas” Kelly, Mark Kelly, Pam Melroy, Randy Bresnik, and mission specialist Megan McArthur.

Fly Us to the Moon

The next lunar explorers will soon report to Houston. Are some already there?
November 2008 | By Michael Cassutt

The author, wearing a Russian Orlan spacesuit, prepares to venture outside the International Space Station in January 2005.

First Steps

Chinese astronauts are preparing for their first spacewalk. What's in store for them?
September 18, 2008 | By Leroy Chiao

Humans vs. Robots

Which way lies our future in space? A discussion.
June 27, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

A & S Interview: David Sington

In the Shadow of the Moon.
November 01, 2007 | By Tony Reichhardt

Jay Barbree (left)and Gus Grissom around the time of the astronaut

Before the Fire

Veteran space reporter Jay Barbree recalls Apollo's darkest day.
November 01, 2007 | By Jay Barbree

Paul Dimitriu in his Los Angeles jewelry shop.

The Astronaut Jeweler

More than 1,500 pieces designed by Paul Dimitriu have flown on the space shuttle.
September 2007 | By Rick Hauck

To test human responses to G forces, the Navy put subjects in a 10- by six-foot oblate steel sphere at the end of a 50-foot arm.

The G Machine

Riding an Atlas into space was a piece of cake compared to pulling 32 Gs on the Johnsville centrifuge.
May 2007 | By Mark Wolverton


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