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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 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 .
Petro, who was the head of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch facilities in Florida, was a surprise pick to serve as interim chief of the agency. Jim Free, who has held a variety of agency roles ...
The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility (LSLF) is a repository and laboratory facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The facility preserves most of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of ...
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 ]
Langley Research Center (LaRC), founded in 1917, is the oldest of NASA's field centers, located in Hampton, Virginia.LaRC focuses primarily on aeronautical research, though the Apollo lunar lander was flight-tested at the facility and a number of high-profile space missions have been planned and designed on-site.
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.