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A panel investigating astronaut health issues discovers incidents of intoxication among astronauts at flight boarding times. Recommendations for restructuring of NASA astronaut assessment are to be handed down in Bachmann report.

Christopher Carr, a postdoctoral associate in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science and Ian Garrick-Bethell, also a graduate student in that department have devised a way to aid astronauts on their upcoming asteroid missions.

Astronauts must participate in specially-designed exercise and diet programs, particularly for long space missions.

Atlantis and ISS are within Earth's protective magnetosphere. Beginning in 2011, NASA plans manned lunar launches, then manned and robotic launches to Mars. Astronauts will be at risk for radiation sickness from solar proton storms.

"Keep your eyes on your gloves," Mission Control told astronauts James Reilly and Danny Olivas on Monday as they prepared to engage in a spacewalk outside the celestial confines of the International Space Station.

There were a total of two studies done, the first one was an internal review conducted by NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston and the second one is the one completed by the outside agency, the Astronaut Health Care System Review Committee

Wally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. His professionalism is still a shining example today.

Why the space program would love to have a Filipino working with them.

The recent death of Dr. James Van Allen, opponent of human space flight, reminds us that the robots vrs astronaut debate is as old as the space age.

The first Student in Space (SIS) Columbia Math Mission for Buchanan simulated an International Space Station (ISS) mission. The simulation ran the gamut, from astronaut application and selection to the research, design and fabrication of model rockets.

Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon in 1969. Almost 40 years later, millions believe Apollo 11 was a hoax crafted by President Nixon, the CIA, and Stanley Kubrick. Apollo astronauts tell their stories about how real it was.

No matter how long I live, the fireball that consumed the Challenger will remain a painful memory.

Senator Barack Obama has published a comprehensive space policy that is conspicuous in what it does not mention as in what it does. Unfortunately it constitutes a return to the 1990s during which astronauts flew in circles in low Earth orbit and commercial space was ignored.

When we were growing up our parents, role models and teachers spent too much time and effort telling us how we would grow up to be lawyers and astronauts or doctors and senators

The Teachers in Space Program, a nonprofit organization, will hold a competition to select two teachers who will be the first astronauts to fly in space and share their experiences to students.

Little-known incident involving one of the Original 7 Project Mercury Astronauts

Illustrates several instances where cave paintings, hieroglyphs, artifacts, The Bible, and even renaissance art appear to depict UFO sightings or occurrences.

Using archival footage and interviews with the surviving astronauts, this documentary examines the Apollo missions in which America shot for the Moon

In the Shadow of the Moon is a celebration of the singular greatest technological feat in history. British director David Singleton scores a particular artistic coup by allowing the astronauts themselves to tell their stories, clear and unvarnished.

13 'Unknown' Women were trained as astronauts at the same time the famous 'Original 7' men were

The crew will test lunar exploration concepts and medical concerns for long space flights. They'll conduct "moon walks" under the sea, build a communications tower, practice lunar sample collecting and perform tasks to look into space suit design.

Atlantis has returned safely to Earth, although the seven astronauts on board ended up in the Mojave Desert instead of Florida, as originally planned due to bad weather.

The seven astronauts on the space shuttle Atlantis completed the final inspection of the shuttle's heat shields, mere hours after undocking from the international space station.

If the computers cannot be permanently rebooted, the ISS will have to be abandoned, as the computers control the altitude and recycling systems, affecting the astronauts' food and water supplies.

Even wanted to feel like you were truly weightless? Now it is possible for the public to experience what up until now, could only be experienced by astronauts in space. Still thinking about experiencing this unbelievable, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?

According to NASA's website Mission Management Team Chair John Shannon has extended the STS-117 mission by two days so the crew can make repairs to the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Solar storms range from being a nuisance--by disrupting some electronic systems, to being dangerous--by disrupting navigational equipment and other important electronics, by disrupting power supplies, and by exposing astronauts to excessive radiation.

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that certain forms of fungi actually digest radiation, showing promise as an inexhaustible food source for astronauts.

Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., known as Wally, died Thursday, May 3, 2007, at the age of 84. Schirra was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts and the only one to fly on all three of NASA 's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. Read more about Schirra's career.

NASA is planning to explore other planets farther out in our solar system that will add even more years to the space missions resulting in the astronauts being away from home longer. The space agency has now been put in the position of pondering many issues.

You'd probably make a good Filipno astronaut, but it won't come without a few sacrifices. I explain it all. All in good fun, of course.

Due to budget cutbacks, NASA will be forced to delay the replacement for the space shuttle which is expected to take astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.

NASA invented the first memory foam material in the 1970's. At that time, NASA was trying to come up with a material that could cushion the astronauts when taking off due to the high G levels.

I remember when Ron Howard was the adorable little Tom Sawyer-esqe character named Opie on the Andy Griffith Show. Those were the days when we had astronauts like the squeaky-clean John Glenn and the Heroic Neil Armstrong. They could do no wrong.

While the 24 hour news networks were busy 24/7 on the diaper wearing astronaut and Anna Nicole Smith's death, they ignored a smoking gun that may ultimately prove even to those who still haven't figured it out that Bush and Cheney lied in order to get their war in Iraq.

As two astronauts took the second space walk within four days, toxic ammonia leaked from a fluid line while upgrades were being completed.

Navy Capt Lisa Nowak, 43, has been charged with attempted kidnapping in a bizarre love triangle involving two US astronauts.

Tang, the powdered orange drink, didn't go far until the astronauts took it to the moon. A brief history of a marketing success.

Did the Apollo astronauts find something more interesting than rocks on the moon? An imaginative new book called "The Apollo Prophecies" takes another look at what might have happened on the lunar surface.

Unfortunately, very little is publicly known about this biological signal, although NASA has been using this knowledge to protect astronauts while they are outside the earth's natural source.

NASA has selected a contractor team led by the aerospace behemoth Lockheed Martin to build the Orion Moon Ship. The Orion, if plans go to fruition, will carry four astronauts back to the Moon sometime between the years 2015 and 2018.

For astronauts flying in space, especially for long periods, the lost of muscular strength and bone mass, among other problems, caused by prolonged exposure to micro gravity has been a concern to researchers.

Rocket Man, by Nancy Conrad and Howard A. Klausner, is an account of the life of Pete Conrad, not only one of the most famous astronauts of the Apollo era, but also one of the most colorful and interesting.

Water recycling technology, now under development, will not only assist astronauts on other worlds, but will bring potable drinking water to places in the Third World and areas struck by disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.

Mike Mullane's Riding Rockets is one of the best astronaut memoirs ever written. It is the first person story of Colonel Mike Mullane, who was picked as one of the first class of shuttle astronauts in 1978.

Forty or so years ago, astronauts had all the glory of the exploration of space. Now, robots are exploring places that currently no astronaut can go. For the past twenty five years, no human being has journeyed beyond low Earth orbit.

In 1963 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became a member of the third group of astronauts named to join NASA.

A new book explores the meaning of the Apollo space program by interviewing the last living astronauts who walked on the moon.

Some time in the year 2018, if all plans come to fruition, an event will happen for the first time in forty six years. A space craft will land on the Moon and astronauts will walk on the lunar surface.

The final interview of legendary film producer/director Sid Pink. He was the mastermind behind genre classics like "Reptilicus," "Angry Red Planet" and "Pyro" among many others before his death in 2002.