Frank Borman, the NASA astronaut who led the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon, has died at the age of 95, the US space agency said Thursday. He passed away on November 7 in Billings, Montana. “Today we remember one of NASA’s best,” said the agency’s administrator Bill Nelson, in a statement. “His lifelong love for aviation and exploration was only surpassed by his love for his wife Susan.” […]
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Astronaut prepares for five month mission to the ISS
REUTERS — NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough discussed his upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday (September 6) and contingency plans if SpaceX rockets are unable to resupply the space station. Kimbrough and his crewmates cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian Space agency will launch on September 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The team will conduct nearly 250 experiments during the five-month expedition with varied emphasis, including: life […]





