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- Air Force colonel back from Atlantis
- Former San Carlos resident Rex Walheim has returned from a 5.3 million-mile trip that took him around the world -- multiple times. Walheim, 45, an Air Force colonel, was aboard the space shuttle Atlantis during its recent mission to deliver and help connect the European Space Agency's...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- Flying aboard "Air Force Two".(Washington-New York Shuttle)
- This was definitely a different kind of trip. From the very beginning, one could tell this wasn't going to be the typical Washington-New York Shuttle with 125 tired sweaty passengers stuffed into a well-worn Eastern DC-9. Yes, we were indeed traveling from Washington D.C. up to...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- BRIEFLY
- 302nd Airlift Wing logs 2,771 missions The 302nd Airlift Wing, a reserve unit from Peterson Air Force Base, has logged some impressive statistics since it was activated for war duty nearly a year ago, according to newly released Air Force statistics. The unit, which...
- Research articles 2006-07-10
- "Fantastic mission', but we're glad to be back : Discovery commander
- EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States AFP — Space Shuttle Discovery commander Eileen Collins said the gut-wrenching 14-day voyage had been "fantastic," but that she and her crew were relieved to be back on Earth. "We have had a fantastic mission," she said in her first words after she...
- Research articles 2005-08-09
- Discovery mission has ties to Springs bases, colleges
- NASA's Discovery shuttle mission, scheduled to launch today, has several Colorado Springs links, including its crew members and the agencies that will monitor the takeoff, flight and landing. Eileen Collins, the shuttle's commander, earned a master's degree in space systems management from Webster University's Colorado Springs campus...
- Research articles 2005-07-13
- Ready for liftoff: reservist astronaut counting down the days until he blasts into space
- One day this summer, a 48-year-old Air Force Reservist is scheduled to join one of the most elite clubs on this planet--the alliance of men and women who have traveled into space. Lt. Col. Mike Fossum, a NASA astronaut and individual mobilization augmentee assigned to the F-16 System Program...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- Eileen Collins
- Eileen Collins On February 4, 1995, at 12:22 a.m. in Cape Canaveral, Florida, thousands of people held their breath as Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins (born 1956) launched the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery into the heavens on her first mission as pilot. Flames burst from the shuttle's engines as smoke enveloped...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Air Force picks astronaut as new AD
- Former academy football player and astronaut Michael Bloomfield will be named Air Force's athletic director as early as today, sources said Sunday. Bloomfield, 44, reached at his home in Houston on Sunday, declined comment, but academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker said a news conference is tentatively scheduled for...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- Former Shuttle Pilot to Lead NASA's Langley, Va., Center.
- By Elena Gaona, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 14--NASA's Kennedy Space Center director in Florida for the past six years is coming to Hampton to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, officials announced Thursday. Gen....
- Research articles 2003-06-14
- ON TOP OF THE WORLD
- Brennan, Georgina Irish Voice 03-18-2003 Irish American astronaut Eileen Collins was the first female to command a space shuttle, and was due to travel to space again this month as commander of the Atlantis. But the Columbia tragedy has grounded those plans...
- Research articles 2003-03-18
- NASA names board to lead probe of Columbia disaster
- SPACE CENTER, Houston -- An independent board named by NASA took the lead of the Columbia investigation, while officials at the space agency stressed that they were keeping an open mind about what might have caused the shuttle to break apart over Texas. "We have not ruled out...
- Research articles 2003-02-07
- Israel mourns death of its first astronaut, Ilan Ramon.
- By VOA News, IsraelNationalNews & Israel Faxx news services As Israel mourned the death of the nation's first astronaut, its prime minister promised that the Jewish state would remain involved in space travel. Condolences continue to be exchanged between Israel and the United States...
- Research articles 2003-02-03
- Eileen Collins
- Eileen Collins On February 4, 1995, at 12:22 a.m. in Cape Canaveral, Florida, thousands of people held their breath as Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins (born 1956) launched the U.S. Space Shuttle Discovery into the heavens on her first mission as pilot. Flames burst from the shuttle's engines as smoke enveloped...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Boosting the shuttle: as the space shuttle prepares to launch, airmen stand ready for rescues should disaster strike
- Even though he's constantly training to do his job, Master Sgt. Doug Huttenlocker dreads the day he'll have to use his skills. That's because as a space shuttle rescue manager, it's his job to coordinate rescue efforts if the shuttle has a problem during launch. Huttlenlocker's tasked to enter...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Astronaut, Senior KSC Manager Shriver departs NASA.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-10 April 2000-NASA: Astronaut, Senior KSC Manager Shriver departs NASA C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07042000 Veteran Shuttle astronaut and senior Space Shuttle manager Loren J. Shriver has announced his departure from NASA/Kennedy Space Center effective March 31, 2000....
- Research articles 2000-04-10
- NASA: Shuttle mishap simulation proves KSC emergency readiness.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 March 1999-NASA: Shuttle mishap simulation proves KSC emergency readiness C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:160399 Kennedy Space Center will stage a simulated astronaut rescue mission this week, based on the unlikely scenario of a crash landing at the Shuttle Landing...
- Research articles 1999-03-17
- Astronaut Is High On Somanetics Venture. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)
- DETROIT--Aug. 16--After years of falling from airplanes, plunging into oceans and being blasted into space, James Bagian needed a challenge. That's why the engineer-physician-astronaut has turned up in Troy, Mich. He started last week as a vice president at Somanetics, a company that uses light waves...
- Research articles 1993-08-15
- Leaving the shuttle can be a hard trip
- Leaving the shuttle can be a hard trip It was not a whole rocket that failed on Aug. 25, just five days before the successful test of the space shuttle's redesigned booster (SN: 9/5/87, p. 151). It was merely a test example of a single,...
- Research articles 1987-09-12
- Shuttle-Centaur canceled
- Shuttle-Centaur canceled Even as NASA grapples with the task of getting the space shuttle flying again, safety concerns have prompted the agency to cancel plans for launching shuttle-deployed spacecraft with a powerful upper-stage rocket that had been developed specifically for the purpose -- and on which $674 million had...
- Research articles 1986-07-05
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- Caption only: Atlantis begins ferry flight home from California
- Space shuttle Atlantis hitches a ride on a NASA Boeing 747 Monday morning as it begins its journey from Edwards Air Force Base in California to Florida. It made its first stop en route at Biggs Army Airfield in El Paso, Texas, Monday afternoon. Atlantis landed in California on May...
- Articles 2009-06-02
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