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The business of hurtling humans into space is getting routine on the Space Coast with the fourth flight of a SpaceX Crew ...
An international crew is readying for Thursday's planned launch of a NASA mission to the International Space Station after ...
The NASA, JAXA and Roscosmos crew members set to launch next to the International Space Station arrived at Kennedy Space ...
NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 flight is more than just a crew rotation — it lands during a historic moment in spaceflight: the 25th ...
Crew-11 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 31 atop a Falcon 9 rocket, if all goes to plan.
An alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will command a SpaceX flight at the end of this month NASA said ...
UNC alumnus Zena Cardman will command SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the ISS, replacing a prior assignment due to issues with Boeing Starliner. The mission includes astronauts from NASA, JAXA, and ...
Zena Cardman, a UNC alumna and astronaut candidate with NASA's 2017 class, poses for a potrait in front of Morehead Planetarium on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019. Cardman entered the cohort as one of 12 ...
Cardman has earned numerous awards and honors, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2012-2017), Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Fellowship s (2015-2016), Royster Society ...
Among the 11 newly inducted NASA astronaut candidates is one of UNC's very own alumna, Zena Cardman. NASA says the program aims to send "the first woman and the next man" to the moon by 2024.
Born in Urbana, Illinois, Zena Cardman calls Williamsburg, Va. home today. She graduated from UNC in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in biology, honors in poetry and minors in marine science ...
Zena Cardman suits up for neutral buoyancy training. It's called the Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, a little bit outside of Johnson Space Center.