Army Colonel Mark Vande Hei, a 1989 graduate of Saint John's University is preparing for a trip of a lifetime. After years of hard world and training, Vande Hei got news last summer of his assignment to take off for the International Space Station in March 2017.
Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, has died. Ride, 61, passed away peacefully at her home in La Jolla, CA. on Monday, July 23 after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Lots of little kids dream about becoming astronauts — and for some lucky grown-ups, those dreams could become a reality. NASA recently concluded an open call for civilians to apply for a spot in the next astronaut class.
You may have heard us talking about it on Friday or Saturday, and it kind of fell under most of our radars with all the messy political events happening on our planet, but Saturday night, the Moon was the closest it's been to Earth since 1993. The rare event is called a 'Perigee Moon', meaning that the moon is as close as it can get to us.