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The NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos crew members set to launch next to the International Space Station arrived at Kennedy Space ...
The business of hurtling humans into space is getting routine on the Space Coast with the fourth flight of a SpaceX Crew ...
An international crew is readying for Thursday's planned launch of a NASA mission to the International Space Station after ...
Crew-11 will be the 11th crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its 12th flight with ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is poised for liftoff, with Zena Cardman serving as the commander of the four-person crew. Along with pilot Mike Fincke, mission specialists Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg ...
In the 1997 film Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan, Ellie Arroway played by Jodie Foster comments on her view of the cosmos: "They should have sent a poet." NASA has that chance now in UNC ...
Cardman and the ten other astronauts are the first to join NASA since its Artemis program was announced. The program aims to send the first humans to the moon since 1972 in 2024, and to Mars in ...
Zena Cardman knew she might not have another opportunity to pursue poetry. She was about to dive into graduate research on microbiology in extreme environments when she put that plan on ice, and ...
Cardman has earned numerous awards and honors, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2017), Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowships (2015-2016), Royster Society Distinguished ...
NASA astronaut Zena Cardman will be the keynote speaker at UNC’s spring 2024 Commencement, the University announced Thursday morning.. She will address the spring 2024 graduates at the ceremony ...