Tag: John Grunsfeld
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‘Hubble Hugger’ and chief of NASA science division to leave agency
John Grunsfeld is seen inside the shuttle Atlantis’ airlock preparing for a spacewalk during a 2009 visit to the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Veteran astronaut John Grunsfeld, who flew five space shuttle missions before becoming the head of NASA’s science mission directorate in 2012, announced Tuesday he will leave the space agency April 30.…
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U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame welcomes 2015 class
Grunsfeld, Lindsey, Rominger and Seddon. Credit: NASA CAPE CANAVERAL — A proud “Hubble Hugger,” the final commander of shuttle Discovery, the first person to fly a docking to the International Space Station and one of the first U.S. women to join the astronaut ranks were inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on Saturday. Veteran…
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High-flying tune-ups gave us the Hubble generation
STORY WRITTEN FOR ASTRONOMY NOW & USED WITH PERMISSION The Hubble Space Telescope in the payload bay of space shuttle Atlantis during the last servicing mission in May 2009. Credit: NASA You can thank thousands of thinkers — unafraid to get their hands dirty — for the steady diet of discoveries and jaw-dropping vistas produced by the…
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NASA, JAXA reach asteroid sample-sharing agreement
Artist’s concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft at asteroid Bennu. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Scientists from the United States and Japan plan to share asteroid specimens from the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa 2 sample return missions under an agreement signed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The missions will explore…
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John Grunsfeld speaks about Orion’s science goals
John Grunsfeld, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters, speaks about the EFT-1 test flight and science opportunities made possible by the Orion capsule and its Space Launch System rocket.