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Former Sen. Garn tells students to dream big to accomplish goals

Last updated Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 9:37pm

KAYSVILLE — Third- and sixth-grade students from 27 schools across the state got a rare chance to catch a glimpse at the life of an astronaut.

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Horace Mann Elementary fifth-graders control their station during a mock orbiter launch at Odyssey Elementary School's Astro Camp in Ogden on Thursday. (KENDAL RUSSELL/Standard-Examiner)

Astro Camp initiates learning about mission control in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 10:48pm

OGDEN — Liftoff was touch and go for the cockpit crew of the orbiter Phoenix. For one thing, the astronauts got only little more than an hour of mission training, as opposed to the 18 months usually required by NASA.

Then there was the fact that the ground staffs of both Mission Control and the Operations Center, also new to their jobs, could not pronounce some of the complex names of the technical systems they were trying to power up and lock down. And to top it off, there was the distracting group of kindergartners standing around a piano in the hallway, singing about colors and raindrops.

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 image made from video provided by NASA, commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shakes hands with Robonaut aboard the station in orbit around the earth. It's the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid in space. NASA's Robonaut was launched aboard space shuttle Discovery last February. Crews have been testing it to see how it one day might help astronauts perform space station chores. (AP Photo/NASA)

Astronaut and robot shake hands in space

Marcia Dunn The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 4:21pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts and robots have united in space with a healthy handshake.

The commander of the International Space Station, Daniel Burbank, shook hands Wednesday with Robonaut. It's the first handshake ever between a human and a humanoid in space.

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Records sealed in NASA astronaut's love-triangle arrest

Henry Piersen Curtis The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 10:51pm

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Records of former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's arrest in Orlando live in cyberspace, but an Orange County judge has sealed her criminal case forever.

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Space station an engineering marvel

Kelli Hadley Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 4:09pm

MOSCOW, Idaho -- The ability to construct an international space station is a level of technology that's "never been seen before," former NASA astronaut John Phillips said Thursday night at a lecture in the University of Idaho Law Building Courtroom.

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Blurred vision plagues astronauts who spend months in space

Mark K. Matthews The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 8:58am

WASHINGTON -- If NASA ever wants to send astronauts to Mars, it first must solve a problem that has nothing to do with rockets or radiation exposure.

A newly discovered eye condition -- found to erode the vision of some astronauts who've spent months aboard the International Space Station -- has doctors worried that future explorers could go blind by the end of long missions, such as a multi-year trip to Mars.

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Last shuttle crew besieged with last-minute favors

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Last updated Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 3:14pm

HOUSTON -- The four astronauts assigned to NASA's last space shuttle flight can't seem to escape all the fuss and hubbub.

With just eight days until Atlantis blasts off, the astronauts said Thursday they're still getting last-minute requests. Relatives, acquaintances and special-interest groups are all clamoring for launch tickets. And just about everyone wants the astronauts to take something of theirs on the last shuttle ride.

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In this May 5, 1961 image released by NASA, U.S. astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., is seen in his space suit prior to launch on the spacecraft Freedom 7 at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Shepard became the first astronaut to man a spacecraft in orbit . NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. human flight with several ceremonies and a parade. The U.S. Postal service will unveil two new stamps, one commemorates NASA's Project Mercury and Shepard's history launch and the other honor's NASA's Messenger, which became the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury. (NASA, HO/Associated Press)

1st American in space honored on 50th anniversary

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 5, 2011 - 3:25pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Fifty years to the moment Alan Shepard rocketed away, more than 100 Project Mercury workers joined former astronauts and NASA leaders at the original Redstone launch pad Thursday to celebrate the event that opened space travel to Americans.

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Veteran shuttle astronaut thrills Davis County students

Ruth Malan Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 3:08pm

KAYSVILLE — Do astronauts eat Astronaut Ice Cream in space?

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Native-American astronaut wants children to aim for the stars

Kelsey Husky, Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Last updated Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - 12:05pm

MOSCOW, Idaho -- John Herrington, a member of the Chickasaw Nation, didn't always know he'd be an astronaut.

"When I was about your age," he told Pullman first- and second-grade students Tuesday, "I used to sit in a cardboard box and pretend I was going to the moon."

He visited Franklin Elementary School to explain what it's like to be the first Native American tribal member to enter space.

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Astronaut twins reunited after 5 months apart

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 18, 2011 - 1:55pm

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronaut Scott Kelly is back home reunited with his twin astronaut brother, after a five-month space station mission that was marred by the shooting of his congresswoman sister-in-law.

Kelly hurried back to Houston on Thursday, just a day after landing in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian capsule. He was immediately reunited with identical twin Mark, who's married to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

Giffords is recuperating in Houston from a gunshot wound to the head. She was shot Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents in Tucson, Ariz. The tragedy occurred three months into Scott Kelly's stay at the International Space Station.

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President Barack Obama talks to astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at a memorial service for the victims of Saturday's shootings at McKale Center on the University of Arizona campus Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz.

NASA names backup for Giffords’ husband on shuttle

Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 2:34pm

WASHINGTON — NASA announced Thursday a backup commander, if necessary, to take the place of the astronaut-husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was wounded in a mass slaying and recovering in a Tucson, Ariz., hospital.

Officially, Capt. Mark Kelly, who is Giffords’ husband of more than three years, is still the commander for the final scheduled flight of the space shuttle program, NASA said. The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to launch on April 19 on a trip to the International Space Station.

Kelly was named commander of the final shuttle flight in 2009 and has been in training for 17 months. Being chosen to lead the final shuttle flight is a big honor, NASA spokesman Michael Curie said.

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