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(third in a series) As the Moon circles the Earth and both bodies make their way around the sun, we’d like to maintain near-constant communication between astronauts and their home planet. During Apollo, astronaut landings were restricted to the lunar near-side, in direct line-of-sight radio communication with Earth. Back then, the command module pilot would […]

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NASA has few digital photos posted on its Image and Video Library for STS-68; the digital wave proceeds slowly into preserving images from thirty years ago. We took about 13,000 Earth observation images on this flight, and only a handful accompany NASA’s compilation of STS-68 images online. Liftoff images are relatively plentiful; NASA chose half […]

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We’re three weeks out from the official publication of Space Shuttle Stories, but copies are already beginning to show up in some retail stores. The pages look spectacular, graced with hundreds of rarely seen shuttle and astronaut images, many new to publication. I was excited to discover my author Q&A this weekend in “Air and […]

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Eric Ward (VP for Public Programs at the Linda Hall Science Library in Kansas City, MO) spoke with me about all things “astronaut”: my career path, what it’s like to fly (and walk!) in space, and the future of human spaceflight. Eric asks about my four Space Shuttle missions and the three spacewalks performed during […]

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Thanks to Neil Cavuto for inviting me Friday to talk with him about Mars exploration. NASA’s Perseverance team continues to amaze. Here’s the video link: https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6235748879001

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I’m honored to be participating in this important meeting (2/17/21) with a talk on the importance of perseverance in space and in life.

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For Veteran Astronaut and Catholic Tom Jones, Space Was a Spiritual Experience Leslie Miller was kind enough to prepare a brief write-up of the importance of my spiritual life to my work and success in space. I speak about the all-important help God and the saints provided, not least the sense of giving up my […]

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On Feb. 19, 2001, my Atlantis crewmates and I obtained this image of the summit caldera of Mauna Loa volcano, called Mokuaweoweo Caldera. NASA writes that “Mauna Loa is the largest volcano on our planet—the summit elevation is 4,170 m (over 13,600 ft), but the volcano’s summit rises 9 km above the sea floor. The […]

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The last day of June is an international recognition of Asteroid Day, a global, public discussion of the hazards posed to Earth and our civilization by asteroid and comet impacts.  June 30, 2017 marks the 109th anniversary of the 40-meter-wide asteroid impact over Tunguska, Siberia, that flattened 2000 square km (800 square miles) of conifer […]

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