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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 ...
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 ...
An alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will command a SpaceX flight at the end of this month NASA said ...
UNC alumnus Zena Cardman will command SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the ISS, replacing a prior assignment due to issues with Boeing Starliner. The mission includes astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and ...
Zena Cardman, an astronaut who holds two degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, will make her first visit to space as early as this summer — and UNC graduates will get to hear from her before her launch.
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 ...
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, an astronaut who holds two degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, will make her first visit to space as early as this summer — and UNC graduates will get to hear from her before her launch.