Some lucky Upstate New York students will have the opportunity of a lifetime this week, when they talk to an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.
The SUNY Oneonta Planetarium is reopening to the public following a closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The planetarium is celebrating the reopening with a live musical performance about the Voyager space probes and the people behind the mission.
This document comes from 1959 and describes what it takes to be a Mercury astronaut.
Are you of NASA quality? How cool is this! This is the original job description for the Mercury astronauts, who were named 54 years ago today!