• Before he became an astrophysicist, Ray Jayawardhana was just a kid, looking up at the night sky with his father. “I remember being awed,” he says. He’s written a book called Child of the Universe.
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• A rocket ship designed and built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company has lifted off with two Americans on a history-making flight to the International Space Station.
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• The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex reopened Thursday for the first time in more than two months.
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• When Doug Hurley launched aboard Atlantis on July 8, 2011, the future of human spaceflight from U.S. soil was uncertain. Nearly a decade later, the astronaut is piloting SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon.
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• Since he grew up in a community of other astronaut families, Andy Aldrin thought having an astronaut father who worked for NASA “was normal.” Andy Aldrin sat with Brendan Byrnes to talk about having an astronaut dad and Apollo 11.
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• The government shutdown has rendered most of the Kennedy Space Center’s 2,000 employees unable to work. The impact of the shutdown on Florida’s Space Coast may turn out to be long-lasting.
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• Jean Wright left the candy business to become a seamstress for the Space Shuttle. Her job was sewing the thermal protection blankets for the space shuttles to help keep it cool during the intense hear during its missions.
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