Tag: astronauts

Jasmin Moghbeli, Badass (and Iranian-American) Astronaut

Click to read at The New Yorker.

2017 NASA Astronaut Candidate – Jasmin Moghbeli. Photo Date: June 6, 2017. Location: Ellington Field – Hangar 276, Tarmac. Photographer: Robert Markowitz

LEGO Will Officially Make the Women of NASA LEGO Set a Real Product!

Click here to read at The Mary Sue.

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How This Son of Migrant Farm Workers Became an Astronaut

Read about it at Money.CNN.com.

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

U.S. Astronaut Jose Hernandez

The Story Behind This Astronaut’s Viral Photo is Even Cuter Than His Dogs #BlackHistoryMonth

Read all about it at Gizmodo.com.

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Astronaut Leland Melvin’s viral official NASA photo

Once Again — NASA is the Best Place to Work

Read about it at NASA’s blog.

And in a Washington Post article there’s this: Many of the rankings were no surprise. NASA has been No. 1 in its category for five straight years.

That’s not because of space, said Max Stier, the Partnership’s president and chief executive.” “It’s because Charlie Bolden [NASA’s administrator] is a great leader.”

Portrait, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington, DC, July 29, 2009.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Portrait, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Washington, DC, July 29, 2009. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Lost astronauts remembered & honored on Jan. 28

Read at i09.

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Astronauts David M. Brown, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, and Ilan Ramon in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module (RDM) aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. This picture was on a roll of unprocessed film later recovered by searchers from the debris. Image credit: NASA