In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew’s February ... call to Shep [Bill Shepherd] and his station crew: “Alpha, Atlantis, here we come.” With a barely ...

Stodieck handed the test tubes off to a NASA crew, then watched as his work lifted away from a launchpad aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. “I never get tired of launches,” said Stodieck, who served ...

Astronaut Sunita Williams strikes a pose during an exercise session on the space station. NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams—her NASA colleagues call her “Sunny”—spent a few hours swabbing ...