...Soyuz: it came down too steeply and landed well off target in an April return flight from the ISS carrying U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson. NASA is working with Russian engineers to identify the cause of the problem and correct it. So what's the backup plan?...
...raised in recent months after two consecutive troublesome landings by space capsules, including in April with American astronaut Peggy Whitson on board. NASA has been working with Russian engineers to try to determine the cause of the dangerous descents but...
...raised in recent months after two consecutive troublesome landings by space capsules, including in April with American astronaut Peggy Whitson on board. NASA has been working with Russian engineers to try to determine the cause of the dangerous descents but...
...upon Russia to take astronauts to and from the international space station for at least half a decade. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson endured a chaotic Soyuz capsule landing in April. Observers say the situation is all the more worrying as earlier in the week,...
...installed on the International Space Station. At Glenn's Lewis Field in Cleveland on the same day, Expedition 16 Commander Peggy Whitson will present a mission briefing to employees at 1 p.m. followed by an informal media opportunity. Whitson has accumulated...
...Peggy Whitson, 48, has deep Iowa roots, growing up in Beaconsfield, graduating from Mount Ayr Community High School and earning her bachelor's degree from Iowa Wesleyan College. She later earned a doctorate in biochemistry from Rice University and worked at...
...champs Mesquite in a showdown between the states. Donahue went on to play at Iowa Wesleyan. Astronaut: Sports key to my career Peggy Whitson, who visited Iowa this week, reflected on how sports helped her to a career as a record-setting astronaut. Whitson...
...7, 2008-- Peggy Whitson always dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Now, the Iowa native holds records for both men and women in space. She came home to Iowa to share her story with kids at the Science Center of Iowa. Whitson is the first female commander...
...off track, landing 420 kilometers from its target in the steppes of Kazakhstan. The reentry subjected U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, South Korean counterpart Yi So-yeon and Russian Yuri Malentchenko to experience uncomfortably high G forces. A similar glitch...
...was never far from Peggy Whitson's thoughts during six months in command of the International Space Station. "I knew I was over the Midwest when I saw the telltale mile-by-mile squares formed by the roads that crisscross the states," said the Iowa astronaut,...