by Alisa Nelson | Sep 30, 2020 | Education, Military, News, Science / Technology
On a farm near southern Missouri’s Richland, Mike Hopkins grew up watching with fascination as astronauts rocketed into space. America’s space shuttle program inspired him to want to reach for the stars. Those were the days of the space shuttles Challenger and...
by Alisa Nelson | Aug 2, 2020 | Military, News, Science / Technology
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have made history again. They launched into orbit two months ago as part of the first manned commercial crew in U.S. history and first space launch from American soil in nearly a decade. Today, Behnken and Hurley’s return...
by Alisa Nelson | Jul 31, 2020 | Military, News, Science / Technology
Weather permitting, NASA astronaut Bob Behnken and fellow spaceman Doug Hurley are scheduled to undock Saturday evening at the International Space Station and begin their historic journey back home. Their mission marks the first time in U.S. history that a commercial...
by Alisa Nelson | Jun 26, 2020 | News, Science / Technology
NASA astronaut Bob Behnken is expected to get suited up today and take a walk in space. He’s changing out all the batteries on one of the International Space Station channels today. Behnken, a St. Louis County native, talked this week with NASA officials about the...
by Alisa Nelson | May 30, 2020 | News
For the first time since 2011, America launched humans into Earth’s orbit today. Cape Canaveral weather looked a bit iffy at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida but then began to clear up as liftoff time approached. At 3:22 p.m., a ten second countdown began. Then the...
