A private spaceflight, commanded by Iowan Peggy Whitson and featuring the first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary, came to a close Tuesday with a Pacific splashdown.
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The discovery of a liquid oxygen leak from one of the boosters has delayed what would be Peggy Whitson’s fifth trip into space. A new launch date isn’t yet available.
Iowa astronauts speak about the work that’s done during missions and the experience of seeing Earth from space.
The crew led by Peggy Whitson spent eight days aboard the space station, orbited the Earth 126 times and traveled 3,331,440 miles.
Cedar Falls, Iowa, native Raja Chari “spacewalked” for nearly seven hours Wednesday.
A partnership between Philips’ Diamond and Marion native Dianna Rae High in Louisiana seeks to send pre-sold diamonds to the International Space Station
NASA’s Artemis program aims to put humans back on the moon
The Iowa native spent 665 days in space, more than any other U.S. astronaut
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