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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7084 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers, Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev (left), Commander Victor Afanasyev and French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere add their names to the list of the International Space Station (ISS) visitors in the ships log in the Unity node. Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-6855 (23-31 October 2001) --- French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere, works in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7251 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers wave from a Soyuz spacecraft docked to the International Space Station (ISS). Clockwise from the top are Commander Victor Afanasyev, Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev and French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere. Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera by one of the Expedition Three crew from the nadir docking port on the station. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7032 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Expedition Three crew (bottom) and the Soyuz Taxi crew assemble for a group photo in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). The Expedition Three crewmembers are astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. (center), mission commander, and cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin (left) and Vladimir N. Dezhurov, both flight engineers. The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers are Commander Victor Afanasyev (left), French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere, and Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev. Tyurin, Dezhurov, Afanasyev, and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos. Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7036 (23-31 October 2001) --- Astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. (foreground), Expedition Three mission commander, and the Soyuz Taxi crewmembers assemble for a group photo in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, Commander Victor Afanasyev, and French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere. Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7037 (23-31 October 2001) --- Astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. (foreground), Expedition Three mission commander, and the Soyuz Taxi crewmembers assemble for a group photo in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, Commander Victor Afanasyev, and French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere. Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7056 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers, Commander Victor Afanasyev (left), French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere and Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, add their crew patch to the growing collection, in the Unity node, of insignias representing crews who have worked on the International Space Station (ISS). Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7033 (23-31 October 2001) --- The Soyuz Taxi crewmembers assemble for a group photo in the Zvezda Service Module on the International Space Station (ISS). From the left are Flight Engineer Konstantin Kozeev, Commander Victor Afanasyev, and French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere. Afanasyev and Kozeev represent Rosaviakosmos, and Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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File French Astronaut Claudie Haignere

Handout photo shows ISS003-E-7061 (23-31 October 2001) --- Astronaut Frank L. Culbertson, Jr. (right), Expedition Three mission commander, shakes hands with French Flight Engineer Claudie Haignere of the Soyuz Taxi crew, in the Unity node on the International Space Station (ISS). Haignere represents ESA, carrying out a flight program for CNES, the French Space Agency, under a commercial contract with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. This image was taken with a digital still camera. Photo by Johnson Space Center/NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Robonaut 2 on display at NASM - USA

Handout Photo - Jonathan Rogers, chief of the Robotic Systems Technology Branch at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and former Robonaut project manager, answers questions about Robonaut 2 from museum guests at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Chantilly, Va. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly to space, is displayed publicly for the first time near the space shuttle Discovery. Robonaut 2, often called “R2”, was originally sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA in 2011. Developed in a unique partnership between NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, General Motors, and Oceaneering, R2 represents cutting-edge advancements in humanoid robotics. The robot is designed to assist astronauts with tasks that require both dexterity and precision, improving efficiency and safety for crew members aboard the ISS. The humanoid robot showcases numerous component technologies, including advanced vision systems, sophisticated image r

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Robonaut 2 on display at NASM - USA

Handout Photo - Robonaut 2 is seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Chantilly, Va. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly to space, is displayed publicly for the first time near the space shuttle Discovery. Robonaut 2, often called “R2”, was originally sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA in 2011. Developed in a unique partnership between NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, General Motors, and Oceaneering, R2 represents cutting-edge advancements in humanoid robotics. The robot is designed to assist astronauts with tasks that require both dexterity and precision, improving efficiency and safety for crew members aboard the ISS. The humanoid robot showcases numerous component technologies, including advanced vision systems, sophisticated image recognition capabilities, integrated sensors, and tendon hands with dexterous, lifelike motion. R2’s intricate control algorithms enable it to handle tools, operate in

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Robonaut 2 on display at NASM - USA

Handout Photo - Robonaut 2 is seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Chantilly, Va. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly to space, is displayed publicly for the first time near the space shuttle Discovery. Robonaut 2, often called “R2”, was originally sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA in 2011. Developed in a unique partnership between NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, General Motors, and Oceaneering, R2 represents cutting-edge advancements in humanoid robotics. The robot is designed to assist astronauts with tasks that require both dexterity and precision, improving efficiency and safety for crew members aboard the ISS. The humanoid robot showcases numerous component technologies, including advanced vision systems, sophisticated image recognition capabilities, integrated sensors, and tendon hands with dexterous, lifelike motion. R2’s intricate control algorithms enable it to handle tools, operate in

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Robonaut 2 on display at NASM - USA

Handout Photo - Robonaut 2 is seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Chantilly, Va. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly to space, is displayed publicly for the first time near the space shuttle Discovery. Robonaut 2, often called “R2”, was originally sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA in 2011. Developed in a unique partnership between NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, General Motors, and Oceaneering, R2 represents cutting-edge advancements in humanoid robotics. The robot is designed to assist astronauts with tasks that require both dexterity and precision, improving efficiency and safety for crew members aboard the ISS. The humanoid robot showcases numerous component technologies, including advanced vision systems, sophisticated image recognition capabilities, integrated sensors, and tendon hands with dexterous, lifelike motion. R2’s intricate control algorithms enable it to handle tools, operate in

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Robonaut 2 on display at NASM - USA

Handout Photo - Robonaut 2 is seen at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steve F. Udvar-Hazy Center Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Chantilly, Va. Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly to space, is displayed publicly for the first time near the space shuttle Discovery. Robonaut 2, often called “R2”, was originally sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by NASA in 2011. Developed in a unique partnership between NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, General Motors, and Oceaneering, R2 represents cutting-edge advancements in humanoid robotics. The robot is designed to assist astronauts with tasks that require both dexterity and precision, improving efficiency and safety for crew members aboard the ISS. The humanoid robot showcases numerous component technologies, including advanced vision systems, sophisticated image recognition capabilities, integrated sensors, and tendon hands with dexterous, lifelike motion. R2’s intricate control algorithms enable it to handle tools, operate in

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Hidden Figures Gold Medal Ceremony - Washington

NASA's Johnson Space Center Senior Apollo Sample Processor and Lab Manager Andrea Mosie, left, poses for a photo with Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Mike Johnson (Republican of Louisiana) as she accepts her Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony to honor the Black women mathematicians of NASA who contributed to the space race and who were the subject of the book and movie "Hidden Figures," at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, USA on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat of New York) looks on from right. Photo by Mattie Neretin/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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SpaceX Will Return Stranded Astronauts Next Year

Handout file photo dated November 1, 2022 shows Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams during Suited Post-Landing Emergency Egress in the Boeing Starliner Mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Two Nasa astronauts who have been stuck in space for over two months will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. Nasa said the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had travelled to International Space Station (ISS) on would return to Earth "un-crewed". The pair took off on what was planned to be an eight-day mission on 5 June but will now spend around eight months in orbit. Photo by NASA/Bill Stafford via ABACAPRESS.COM

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SpaceX Will Return Stranded Astronauts Next Year

Handout file photo dated November 1, 2022 shows Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams during Suited Post-Landing Emergency Egress in the Boeing Starliner Mockup at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Two Nasa astronauts who have been stuck in space for over two months will return to Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX. Nasa said the Boeing Starliner spacecraft the astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore had travelled to International Space Station (ISS) on would return to Earth "un-crewed". The pair took off on what was planned to be an eight-day mission on 5 June but will now spend around eight months in orbit. Photo by NASA/Bill Stafford via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Kamala Harris Thrust Into Spotlight As Biden Bows Out

File photo - Vice President Kamala Harris walks up to the podium to speak during a roundtable for the National Space Council Meeting at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, USA, 09 September 2022. President Biden announced he was suspending his re-election campaign and putting his faith in Harris. Within hours, the vice-president confirmed her own bid for the White House. “I will do everything in my power to unite the Democratic party, and unite our nation, to defeat Donald Trump,” Harris said. “We have 107 days until Election Day. Together, we will fight. And together, we will win." Photo by ADAM DAVIS/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Thailand: Severe Flooding Hits Phuket

Heavy rains hit Phuket on Sunday, June 30, sending a deluge of floodwater to town streets and roads. Some roads were impassable due to a meter-deep flooding.

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US: Aero Fire Erupts In Copperopolis, California Forcing Road Closures And Evacuations

A vegetation fire, dubbed Aero Fire, erupted in Copperopolis in Calaveras County on Monday, June 17, and quickly spread to 5,000 acres as of 9:00 p.m. A portion of Highway 4 and several other roads were closed. Evacuation orders were issued for multiple locations near the site of the fire.

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US: Sunday Storms Bring Hail, Flash Flooding To Denver Metro Area

Severe weather continued on Sunday, June 9, in Colorado sending hail and causing flash flooding to parts of the Denver metro area.

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President Biden presents Ochoa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

U.S. President Joe Biden presents astronaut and NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3, 2024. Several of today’s recipients are Democratic Party stalwarts, and Biden himself was awarded the honor by former President Barack Obama in the final days of their administration in 2017. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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President Biden presents Ochoa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

U.S. President Joe Biden presents astronaut and NASA’s Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, May 3, 2024. Several of today’s recipients are Democratic Party stalwarts, and Biden himself was awarded the honor by former President Barack Obama in the final days of their administration in 2017. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Boeing Starliner first manned test flight

Astronauts Sunita Williams (L) and Barry Wilmore pose at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 22, 2024, as they are assigned to board NASA's new spaceship Boeing Starliner, developed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, for its first manned flight test as soon as May 1.

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Boeing Starliner first manned test flight

Photo taken on March 21, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shows a simulator used by astronauts to get used to operating NASA's new spaceship Boeing Starliner, developed to carry them to the International Space Station, ahead of the spaceship's first manned flight test as soon as May 1.

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Boeing Starliner first manned test flight

Photo taken on March 21, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shows a control room for NASA's new spaceship Boeing Starliner, developed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, ahead of the spaceship's first manned flight test as soon as May 1.

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Boeing Starliner first manned test flight

Photo taken on March 21, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shows the interior of a training-use mockup of NASA's new spaceship Boeing Starliner, developed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, ahead of its first manned flight test as soon as May 1.

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Boeing Starliner first manned test flight

Photo taken on March 21, 2024, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shows a mockup of NASA's new spaceship Boeing Starliner, developed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, ahead of its first manned flight test as soon as May 1.

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SpaceX Crew-7 Launch - Cape Canaveral

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Vanessa Wyche, Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wave as NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission is the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are scheduled to launch at 3:27 a.m. EDT, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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NASA unveils Mars simulation habitat

Photo taken April 11, 2023, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, shows a sandbox with red sand simulating the Martian landscape. U.S. space agency NASA unveiled the same day its new Mars simulation habitat, in which four volunteers will live for a year to test what life would be like on future manned missions to the planet, at the center.

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NASA unveils Mars simulation habitat

U.S. space agency NASA unveils its new Mars simulation habitat, in which four volunteers will live for a year to test what life will be like for future missions to the planet, at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on April 11, 2023.

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17 humanoid robots compete in DARPA Robotics Challenge

WASHINGTON, United States - Valkryie, a humanoid robot of the NASA Johnson Space Center, competes in the DARPA Robotics Challenge in Homestead, Florida, on Dec. 20, 2013. Seventeen robots are taking part in the two-day contest hosted by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to prove their performance abilities in an unpredictable disaster situation.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide may venture outside ISS

HOUSTON, United States - (From R to L) Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams give a news conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 20, 2012. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the same day that Hoshide may have the opportunity to venture outside the International Space Station during his four-month stay aboard the ISS beginning in July.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide may venture outside ISS

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide undergoes training for operating robotic arms by computer at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2012. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said March 20 that Hoshide may have the opportunity to venture outside the International Space Station during his four-month stay aboard the ISS beginning in July.

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide may venture outside ISS

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (R) receives a demonstration at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 19, 2012. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration said March 20 that Hoshide may have the opportunity to venture outside the International Space Station during his four-month stay aboard the ISS beginning in July.

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Message of support from Houston

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa speaks in a teleconference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, on a television screen at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on March 22, 2011. Furukawa, who is slated to launch a five-and-a-half-month-long mission at the International Space Station in May, sent a message of support for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, saying, ''I want children in Tohoku (northeastern Japan) to know that if you make efforts little by little, things will be better tomorrow than today, and better the day after tomorrow than tomorrow, and those efforts will accumulate and become a big power.''

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Japanese astronaut speaks ahead of flight

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki speaks to reporters at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on March 8, 2010. Yamazaki says she is looking forward to playing a miniature ''koto'', a Japanese musical instrument, in space aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery, scheduled to depart on April 5.

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Japanese astronaut gets training before space flight

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (front) receives training for robotic arm operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on July 23 ahead of her first flight to the International Space Station in March 2010.

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NASA says no shuttle flights until insulation foam problem solved

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's shuttle program manager Bill Parsons (L) speaks at a press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on July 27. He said NASA will not launch another space shuttle until it solves a problem involving heat insulating foam that fell off the shuttle Discovery.

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Space shuttle Discovery moved to launch pad for May launch

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who is scheduled to be aboard the space shuttle Discovery, briefs reporters on gadgets attached to a space suit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on April 6. The Discovery was transferred the same day to the launch pad from the vehicle assembly building in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its planned launch in May.

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NASA lets media watch Noguchi's training

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (R) is trained at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 18. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) allowed the media to observe the training session. Noguchi is scheduled to join the Atlantis mission, the first U.S. shuttle mission since the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts.

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Astronaut Wakata speaks about Columbia

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata tells a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Feb. 7 that he still finds it hard to believe the midair breakup of the space shuttle Columbia earlier this month.

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Astronaut Mohri prays for Columbia's lost crew

HOUSTON, United States - Mamoru Mohri, Japan's first astronaut who flew on the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, prays for the seven crew members who died in the U.S. space shuttle Columbia disaster at a memorial service at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Feb. 4.

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Mukai voices deep regret over Columbia

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, United States - Japan's first female astronaut Chiaki Mukai voices her deepest regret Feb. 2 over the breakup of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia during a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Mukai took part in shuttle missions in 1994 and 1998.

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Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return to earth

HOUSTON, United States - People place flowers and balloons among other items Feb. 1 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to mourn the seven astronauts who died in a space shuttle disaster. The U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up and disintegrated at high altitude over Texas earlier in the day shortly before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a 16-day space mission.

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Wakata confident about Oct. space shuttle mission

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata speaks at a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Texas on Sept. 26. He expressed confidence about his next space shuttle mission in October being a success, saying, ''If ever the Olympics have any competition for outer space activities, I am sure I would be able to win a gold medal.''

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Japanese astronaut speaks about upcoming shuttle mission

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata shows a model of the international space station while speaking to reporters Aug. 21 on his upcoming shuttle mission at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Johnson Space Center in Houston. While aboard the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, Wakata will operate the shuttle's robot arm and assemble components for the space station. The Discovery, the fourth shuttle NASA will be launching to assemble the space station, is scheduled to lift off Oct. 5.

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Discovery crew waving hands for press

Japanese astronaut Chiaki Mukai (third from L), U.S. Sen. John Glenn (third from R) and the five other crew members of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery meet the press Nov. 8 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Discovery returned home the previous day after successfully ending its nine-day mission. The crew members later returned to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.

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Space shuttle Discovery's crew meet press

The seven crew members on the space shuttle Discovery hold a press conference Nov. 5, with reporters posing questions through TV monitors at the Johnson Space Center. Japanese astronaut Chiaki Mukai (R on TV screen) told reporters she would like to stay longer in space. Discovery is scheduled to return to Earth on Nov. 7.

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Japanese astronaut explains how Spartan was retrieved

Japanese astronaut Takao Doi explains with the help of a TV monitor at the Johnson Space Center, Texas, on Nov. 3 how the space shuttle Discovery retrieved the Spartan satellite which observes the corona of the sun. The small satellite, released Nov. 1, succeeded in taking 500 photos which are expected to help analyze solar winds that disrupt television and radio waves on Earth.