Former astronaut Mark Kelly referred to the shooting during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on gun violence.
For the main event, former astronaut Dr. Bernard Harris emceed, while Mrs.
And it's the birthday of former astronaut Frank Borman who's 78.
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Leading the campaign for a global response to NEOs and a closer exploration of their physical make up is former astronaut Russell Schweickart, who piloted the lunar module of Apollo 9 in 1969.
If the flight is only partly successful, it still promises to be the "spark that ignites a thriving industry, " former astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, president of a trade group pushing such projects, told reporters said Thursday.
We also -- since so many people were inspired in this country originally from our space program to think about math and science in new ways, it's terrific to have our NASA administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden in the house.
Former astronaut Jerry Linenger, who was aboard the Russian space station Mir during a dangerous fire in 1997, told the Associated Press news agency that a loss of communication with the ground "is not a terrible thing" as long as there is no crisis going on.
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Sunday also happens to be the 82nd birthday of former NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong.
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Thagard, the former NASA astronaut, said he was exposed to 120 millisieverts during his 115 days in low-Earth orbit aboard Mir.
This October, Richard Garriott, a computer-game developer and son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, is scheduled to become Space Adventures' sixth client to leave the planet followed by a seventh yet-to-be identified passenger next April.
"Maybe there is a some possibility to launch by the spring, but I don't think anyone seriously thinks that the launch will be that soon, " said Norman Thagard, a former NASA astronaut and five-time shuttle flier.
Disabled individuals could adapt and perform as well as their able-bodied counterparts in space, said one former physician-astronaut.
Wubbo Ockels, a former European Space Agency astronaut, and seven crew members were stranded on board Ecolution seven miles off the coast.
Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.
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He is also a former two-time space shuttle astronaut, having flown in 2008 and 2009.
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The company, known as Planetary Resources, is also backed by space tourism pioneer Eric Anderson, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Ross Perot Jr, son of the former US presidential candidate, and veteran astronaut Tom Jones.
Kelly, a former captain in the U.S. Navy and NASA astronaut, also responded publicly in the wake of the Newtown shootings.
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