This is Your Time to Shine

Tomorrow at 8:56 a.m., Space Shuttle Endeavour will leap off pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.  It will be a bittersweet moment, in that any shuttle launch is magical, but that this will be the final launch for Endeavour.  Discovery flew her last mission February 24-March 9,…

We Will Miss You When You’re Gone

We interrupt this regularly scheduled “Weightlessness and Physiological Effects on Astronauts” blog post to touch on the events of today…. Tonight is Yuri’s Night.  Fifty years ago today, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, marking the dawn of a new era in which mankind would have the ability to exist in a…