Astronauts Scholarship Fund provides budding scientists career opportunities

Astronauts Scholarship Fund provides students invaluable career opportunities to expand and connect to professionals in the ...
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The Mercury 7: Heroes, rivals, brothers

(CNN) -- The first seven U.S. astronauts were hailed as heroes two years before any of them had ventured beyond Earth's comforting blue atmosphere. Introduced to the public on April 9, 1959, the ...
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Mickey Kapp, who made mixtapes for astronauts, dies at 88

Mickey Kapp, a record producer who, after forging a somewhat improbable connection with several Mercury 7 astronauts, went on to provide later space explorers with customized mixtapes to listen to ...

Scott Carpenter: The Astronaut Who Reached Beyond

When Scott Carpenter looked out from his spacecraft window in 1962, the view forever changed him. Below was a glowing blue ...
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NASA introduces new class of astronauts who could fly to moon, Mars. Here's a look

NASA unveiled 10 recruits who will undergo training to become eligible for future missions that could carry humans deeper ...

NASA astronaut class appears to be first without Black recruits in 40 years

But with that milestone apparently came another: the first astronaut class in 40 years without any Black candidates. The most recent class to not include any Black men or women was group 11 in 1985, ...
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An Evening With Two Mercury Astronauts

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The 2011 John H. Glenn lecture featured a moderated conversation with two of NASA's original Mercury astronauts: John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.
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Astronaut Scott Carpenter Is Dead at 88

Scott Carpenter, one of two remaining astronauts from NASA’s Mercury program and the second American to orbit the earth, died Wednesday at the age of 88. His family did not specify a cause of death, ...