Astronauts

NASA is set to launch its first space mission from American soil in nearly a decade — with an astronaut from St. Louis County aboard.St. Ann native Bob…

Dr. Janet Kavandi has orbited the earth more than 500 times yet admits she’s a little nervous about being inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on…

Retired astronaut and U.S. Air Force officer Catherine “Cady” Coleman is among very few people who have lived in space. But during a visit to St. Louis…

Bob Behnken is helping NASA usher in a new era.The astronaut, who grew up in St. Ann, has nearly 40 hours walking in the vacuum of space. Now he is part…

NASA announced Tuesday it will award Boeing $4.2 billion to build one of two spacecraft to take American astronauts to the International Space…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 31, 2010 - Amid news reports Friday that the Obama administration is grounding NASA's plans to…