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[18]: 268–271 In July 2018, Kelly married Amiko Kauderer, a public affairs officer for NASA. [71] [72] His sister-in-law is Gabby Giffords, a former congresswoman from Arizona. [18]: 262 In 2007, Kelly was successfully treated for prostate cancer. After Kelly received his diagnosis, his brother Mark was also diagnosed and successfully treated.
NASA Astronaut Group 16 ("The Sardines") was a group of 44 astronauts announced by NASA on May 1, 1996. [1] The class was nicknamed "The Sardines" for being such a large class, humorously implying that their training sessions would be as tightly packed as sardines in a can. [2] These 44 candidates compose the largest astronaut class to date.
NASA Astronaut Group 15 ("The Flying Escargot") was a group of 23 NASA astronauts announced on December 8, 1994. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Group members adopted The Flying Escargot as their moniker, in reference to two members of the group being from France . [ 3 ]
Leland Devon Melvin (born February 15, 1964) is an American engineer and a retired NASA astronaut. He served on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis as a mission specialist on STS-122, and as mission specialist 1 on STS-129. Melvin was named the NASA Associate Administrator for Education in October 2010.
NASA’s acting administrator said in a Friday email to staff that employees should take an open-minded approach to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s efforts to gain efficiencies.
NASA Astronaut Group 14 ("The Hogs") was a group of 24 astronauts announced by NASA on 31 March 1992. [1] The group's name derived from The Muppet Show skit " Pigs in Space " and from the group's sponsorship of a pot-bellied pig at the Houston Zoo .
NASA later confirmed the object to be an inconel stanchion that was a part of a cargo pallet with old batteries jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021. [ 82 ] The pallets were originally planned to be safely disposed of with an HTV spacecraft that delivered the replacement batteries to the space station, but Exposed Pallet brought by HTV-7 was ...
Astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams bungeed to the TVIS treadmill aboard the International Space Station. The Treadmill with Vibration Isolation Stabilization System, commonly abbreviated as TVIS, is a treadmill for use on board the International Space Station and is designed to allow astronauts to run without vibrating delicate microgravity science experiments in adjacent labs.