NASA Training for Future Lunar Missions
When Gene Cernan stepped back into the Challenger lander on 14 December, 1972 and departed the surface of the moon, many thought that man’s time on the moon was over forever.
But maybe not.
Home Sweet (cough, gag) Venus
Humans have been looking into space, and even thinking about living there, for a long time. The Moon has been considered for colonization for decades, but Mars is currently the most popular choice for potential colonization—just ask Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX.
Underwater Astronauts
If you want to train to be an astronaut, you’d better know how to swim.
Wait, what?
It’s a Woman’s World
When the National Aeronautics and Space Administration formed in 1958, it was pretty much a boys’ club. Women had some low-level jobs, but most of the higher-level work was done by men. Katherine Johnson was one of the earliest female NASA employees. When she started, NASA didn’t even exist. She was working at the Langley Research Center with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which was the agency that eventually developed into NASA….
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