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'I'm a NASA astronaut and this is what it's really like to be in space without showers'

Joan Higginbotham became the third African American woman to go into space in December 2006 after waiting almost two decades to reach her long-held ambition ...

Study: Wildfires in western U.S. play role in global warming

Wildfires are an increasingly common feature of life in American West, and researchers are working overtime to understand how ...

Meet NASA’s 10 New Astronaut Candidates Training for the Moon and Mars

NASA announced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class on2, 2025. The 10 candidates, pictured here at NASA’s Johnson Space Center ...
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Burjeel-Axiom space research paves way for first astronaut with diabetes

First-of-its-kind research aboard Axiom Mission 4 shows diabetes monitoring tools can function reliably in space, signaling ...

I was a NASA astronaut. This is what it's really like in space, how I felt watching my close friends die in the 2003 Columbia disaster and what I really think of Lauren Sanchez

US former NASA astronaut Joan Higginbotham, 60, who waited for nearly 20 years ahead of her 2006 space mission, says space tourists may be able to weekend in orbit in just five years' time.