by Alisa Nelson | Nov 9, 2020 | News, Science / Technology
The countdown is approaching for NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins of southern Missouri’s Richland. In T minus five days, Hopkins and three others are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station. Hopkins is leading the four-person crew on a mission that will make...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Alisa Nelson | May 27, 2020 | News, Science / Technology
St. Louis County native and NASA astronaut Bob Behnken’s mission to the International Space Station will have to wait. Bad weather forced the liftoff to get postponed until Saturday afternoon. Behnken is part of the first manned U.S. spaceflight in nearly a decade and...
