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...Became an astronaut in 1981. Logged more than 680 hours in space on four shuttle flights from 1986 to 1994. Also served as assistant deputy administrator at NASA's headquarters in Washington. (Watch a video of the final shuttle to Hubble...
...inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Cape Canaveral...
...controls of the space shuttle Discovery when it deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 now appears poised to steer NASA into its post-shuttle orbit. Former astronaut and retired Marine general Charles Bolden Jr. is President Obama's likely nominee to head the space agency; the two are expected to meet at the White House May 19 for a formal interview. Years before his famous Discovery flight, Bolden traveled to space with a payload specialist named Bill Nelson - now a powerful Florida Senator and one of Bolden's strongest backers. While Bolden, 62, is widely respected within the space...
Traditionally, were you to ask somebody what "the best job in the world" is, you might expect to hear 'astronaut', 'movie star' or 'bed tester' thrown back at you. But for 34-year-old Englishman Ben Southall - and 35,000 other hopefuls - it was the six-month gig being offered by Tourism Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom...
Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 never dreamed of being a rock star, an astronaut, or a firefighter. While other kids were still picking their noses, Ganeshananthan was already thinking about fiction. When Ganeshananthan entered Harvard in the fall of ’98, she already knew she wanted to be a writer. This knowledged helped focus her academic career. “I wanted to write a creative thesis and the only way I could do that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades...