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  2. NASA Astronaut Corps - Wikipedia

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    Since then, NASA has selected 22 more groups of astronauts, opening the corps to civilians, scientists, doctors, engineers, and school teachers. As of the 2009 Astronaut Class, 61% of the astronauts selected by NASA have come from military service. [1] NASA selects candidates from a diverse pool of applicants with a wide variety of backgrounds.

  3. Space Center Houston - Wikipedia

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    Space Center Houston is a science museum that serves as the official visitor center of NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. It was designated a Smithsonian Affiliate museum in 2014. The organization is owned by NASA, and operated under a contract by the nonprofit Manned Spaceflight Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization.

  4. Mark C. Lee - Wikipedia

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    Mark Charles Lee USAF Colonel, (born August 14, 1952) is a former NASA astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions. He retired from the Air Force and NASA on July 1, 2001. Early life

  5. Michael E. Fossum - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Fossum supported the Astronaut Office as a Technical Assistant for Space Shuttle, supporting design and management reviews. In 1997, he served as a Flight Test Engineer on the X-38, a prototype crew escape vehicle for the ISS, which was under development in house by the Engineering Directorate at NASA-JSC and flight tested at NASA Dryden.

  6. Scientist becomes first NASA-funded researcher to ... - AOL

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    Ferl will be on the Blue Origin flight for 15 minutes as it departs from Launch Site One in West Texas before entering space -- past the Karman line, about 62 miles above the Earth's surface ...

  7. Johnson Space Center - Wikipedia

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    The Overset Grid-Flow software was developed at Johnson Space Center in collaboration with NASA Ames Research Center. The software simulates fluid flow around solid bodies using computational fluid dynamics. [citation needed] The Texas Space Commission was established by Texas governor Greg Abbott on March 26, 2024 at Johnson Space Center. [41]

  8. Kathy Lueders - Wikipedia

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    Lueders has led NASA's human spaceflight program as the Associate Administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. [1] [2] [3] She became the first woman to head human spaceflight. [4] She was the program manager for NASA's Commercial Crew Program and oversaw the return of human spaceflight capabilities to NASA.

  9. Vanessa E. Wyche - Wikipedia

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    Wyche began her career at the Food and Drug Administration. [7] Her career with NASA began in 1989. [7] Wyche also served as a Project Manager within the Space and Life Sciences Directorate, where she was responsible for the development and use of suites of hardware systems for medical and microgravity experiments on the space shuttle and the International Space Station.