Veteran spacewalker and flight surgeon Tom Marshburn is retiring from NASA after 28 years, including 18 years as an astronaut. His last day with the agency is Saturday, Dec. 31. As…
Students Finsam Samson (18) and Yujie Wang (18) have won the 5th annual Genes in Space competition. Samson and Wang, who recently graduated from Troy High School in Troy, Michigan, proposed to study neural function on the International Space Station (ISS). Their experiment will be performed by astronauts aboard the ISS U.S. National Laboratory next year.