Astronauts

Business buzz (The Bay Area Citizen)

8 Oct 2008

Astronauts win technical award Astronauts Mark E. Kelly and Donald R. Pettit are the Federal Laboratory Consortium 2008 Notable Technology Award recipients for their work inventing an oxygen partial pressure sensor.

American women finally got into space (The Bay Area Citizen)

8 Oct 2008

It took a long time -- two decades, in fact -- but NASA finally lowered the barrier and began accepting American women as astronauts.

NASA offers live astronaut talk 24/7 (The Bay Area Citizen)

8 Oct 2008

Conversations between astronauts aboard the International Space Station and flight controllers on the ground now are available for the public to hear live, 24 hours a day, seven days a week on NASA's Web site, www.nasa.gov .