11 Feb 2012 at 7:11am Astronauts on the International Space Station are not allowing vision issues to keep them from completing their important tasks on the orbiting laboratory. In fact, they are taking advantage of the opportunity to study why weightlessness alters vision. Even after 50 years of human spaceflight, scientists still are making new discoveries about human health in microgravity. New research points to ... Read more...
10 Feb 2012 at 4:00am Students at St. Louis school, a 10-class school in the far west of P.E.I., will get to talk to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield next Thursday. Read more...
9 Feb 2012 at 9:15am LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC-- - This February, Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Chris Hadfield will connect with students in classrooms across Canada through a series of virtual question and answer sessions. Starting ... Read more...
7 Feb 2012 at 4:20pm (Reuters) - Former Astronaut Janice E. Voss, one of the few women launched into space, has died of breast cancer in Arizona, her alma mater said on Tuesday. Voss, 55, died on Monday in Scottsdale, Ariz., where she was receiving treatment, Purdue University said in a news release. She had logged five space flights with NASA, spending a total of 49 days in orbit and traveling 18.8 million miles in ... Read more...
2 Feb 2012 at 4:34am NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who gained Internet fame as the first spaceflyer to send Twitter updates from space, is about to get another taste of stardom, this time on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory." Read more...
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