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Byron Willis McCandless [1] was born on June 8, 1937, in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] A third-generation U.S. Navy officer, McCandless was the son of Bruce McCandless and grandson of Willis W. Bradley, both Medal of Honor recipients.
Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Nature photographer Galen Rowell described it as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken".
If that fails, saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together, a SAFER, and, to be honest, a lot of luck. RELATED: Here's whats happening in space this year:
The Blue Marble is a photograph of Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by either Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the Moon.Viewed from around 29,400 km (18,300 mi) from Earth's surface, [1] a cropped and rotated version has become one of the most reproduced images in history.
Before his mission aboard the Navigation Platform International Space Station, Chinese astronaut Liu Peiqiang leaves his son Qi in the care of his father-in-law Han Zi'ang. Half of humanity, mostly chosen by lottery, moves underground; the others die from the cold and cataclysms resulting from the halt of the Earth's rotation as the planet is ...
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station recorded herself making a “tortilla ... When you’re a scientist floating 250 miles above the earth, it’s a “space tortilla,” station ...
Astronaut Rodolfo Neri Vela who flew aboard Atlantis on STS-61-B mission in 1985 is the only Mexican to have traveled to space. ESA astronaut Dirk Frimout who flew on STS-45 as a payload specialist was the first Belgian in space. STS-46 mission specialist Claude Nicollier was the first astronaut from Switzerland.
Astronaut Commander Loren Shriver Third and last spaceflight Pilot Andrew M. Allen First spaceflight Mission Specialist 1 Claude Nicollier, ESA First spaceflight Mission Specialist 2 Flight Engineer Marsha Ivins Second spaceflight Mission Specialist 3 Jeffrey A. Hoffman Third spaceflight Mission Specialist 4 / Franklin Chang-Díaz Third spaceflight