Coburn also made two guest appearances on Perry Mason, both times as the murder victim in " The Case of the Envious Editor " and " The Case of the Angry Astronaut.

In order to avoid paying a tuning fork price for an Accutron with a quartz movement, the date code must be checked, except for 214s, 218s with a 4 o ' clock stem and crown, 218 Travelers, 218 Astronaut IIs, and 218 Deep Seas, all of which are easily recognizable.

image: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Harrison Schmitt posed with the American flag and Earth in the background during Apollo 17's first EVA.

File: Astronaut Harrison ' Jack ' Schmitt, American Flag, and Earth ( Apollo 17 EVA-1 ). jpg | Schmitt poses by the American flag, with Earth in the background, during Apollo 17's first EVA.

* 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.

On 1 August 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin left the Fallen Astronaut on the surface of the Moon as a memorial to all the American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts that died in the Space Race, with Yuri Gagarin listed among 14 others.

When the US Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 his family lent it the spacesuit worn by Grissom during Mercury 4 along with other personal artifacts belonging to the astronaut.

Astronaut crews have performed vital servicing tasks on Hubble through four servicing missions since December 1993 in order to extend operating life with the replacement of aging hardware and enhancing scientific capability through the installation of advanced science instruments.

Komarov's name also appears on a plaque left at Hadley Rille on the Moon by the commander of Apollo 15, David Scott, along with a small sculpture representing the " Fallen Astronaut " on August 1, 1971.

On July 22, 2004, it was reported that Matt Slocum had started a new band, the Astronaut Pushers, with Lindsay Jamieson ( of the band Departure Lounge ) and Sam Ashworth ( son of influential musician Charlie Peacock ).

He has also played guitar with Over the Rhine, and currently, has played bass in the band the Astronaut Pushers.

* Mark Kelly ( born 1964 ), astronaut who first went into space as the pilot for STS-108 Endeavour ( December 5 – 17, 2001 ), and returned to space with STS-121 in 2006 as the pilot ; His twin brother, Scott Kelly, is also in the Astronaut Corps.

The TV show The Young Ones included an entire episode entitled " Nasty ", in which the characters rent a video recorder specifically to watch a " video nasty " ( with the fictitious name " Sex With the Headless Corpse of the Virgin Astronaut "), and which featured a lip synched performance of " Nasty " by The Damned.

Fellow Astronaut Richard Mullane wrote, " These switches were protected with lever locks that required them to be pulled outward against a spring force before they could be moved to a new position.

The ' Astronaut ' tour lasted for more than 2 years with shows all around the world.

Astronaut Michael Collins brought an index card with the poem typed on it on his Gemini 10 flight and included the complete poem in his autobiography Carrying The Fire.

* To Rule the Night: The Discovery Voyage of Astronaut Jim Irwin ( with William A. Emerson, Jr., 1973 )

* For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut, ISBN 0-15-100467-6 or the revised paperback edition ISBN 0-451-21105-7, Carpenter's biography, co-written with his daughter Kris Stoever ; describes his childhood, his experiences as a naval aviator, a Mercury astronaut, including an account of what went wrong, and right, on the flight of Aurora 7.

Astronaut Leroy Chiao works with the control of the Canadarm2 in the Destiny Laboratory Module | Destiny lab

* Pre-Recorded Q & A with Julie Payette in NASA's Astronaut Flight Lounge — select " Julie Payette " from the " Astronauts " tab.

Astronaut John Glenn took 400 million " Amazing Sea-Monkeys " into space with him in 1998.

On June 28, 2012, Lu, with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schewickart and Dr. G. Scott Hubbard, Astrophysicist and Author from Stanford University launched the B612 Foundation to build and operate the first privately funded deep space mission called SENTINEL.

He is the primary interface ( at the directorate level ) to the ISS Program and works closely with the Astronaut Office EVA Branch and ISS Operations Branch.

He also makes a public appearance occasionally to sign memorabilia at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex and also appears for the complex's " Lunch with an Astronaut " program.

In recent years, he has been active in the " Lunch with an Astronaut " program at Kennedy Space Center.

On September 1, 1992 Buchli retired from the Marine Corps and the NASA Astronaut Office to accept a position as Manager, Space Station Systems Operations and Requirements with Boeing Defense and Space Group, at Huntsville, Alabama.

* Pre-Recorded Q & A with Steve Robinson in NASA's Astronaut Flight Lounge ;-Select " Steve Robinson " from the Astronauts tab

In the late 1970s, Glenn is reported to have supported Shuttle Mission Specialist Astronaut Judith Resnik in her career.

* Astronaut Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger Currently, she is assigned to the crew of STS-131, her first expedition.

Chawla joined the NASA ' Astronaut Corps ' in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996.

Tony's best friend and fellow astronaut, US Army Corps of Engineers Captain Roger Healey, doesn't know about Jeannie for several episodes – when he finds out ( in the episode " The Richest Astronaut In the Whole Wide World " 15, 1966 ), he steals her so he can live in luxury.

In her final position, she served as branch chief for the Orion branch of the Astronaut Office.

* On the sitcom 30 Rock, Liz Lemon frequently references her dream man, " Astronaut Mike Dexter.

Payload Commander Rhea Seddon sent down a special message to her husband, Astronaut Office Chief Robert L. Gibson when she surpassed his total of 632 hours, 56 minutes in space.

After her first space flight, Davis served as the Astronaut Office representative for the Remote Manipulator System ( RMS ), with responsibility for RMS operations, training, and payloads.

This use continued through her subsequent appearances in The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone and The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon.

In support of a joint U. S ./ Russian program, the crew transported to Mir nearly two tons of water, food, supplies, and scientific equipment, as well as U. S. Astronaut Shannon Lucid to begin her six-month stay in space.

File: Space Shuttle Columbia funeral-c. jpg | A casket team from the United States Navy fold the flag covering the remains of NASA Astronaut and U. S. Navy Captain Laurel Blair Salton Clark, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Columbia who perished with the rest of her crewmates during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.

Lemon, a 40-something single woman whose relationships never seem to work out, has unrealistically high expectations of what she is looking for in a man: Her dream husband is the archetypal " Astronaut Mike Dexter ", and for much of the series her character is holding out on settling on a man until she can score an astronaut.

In 1978, Cintron read a recruitment announcement for the first Mission Specialist positions in the Astronaut Corps while at Johns Hopkins still completing her PhD research work.

* Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger — taught earth science and astronomy at Hudson's Bay for five years before NASA selected her for the Astronaut Training Program in 2004.

Following her work in Mission Control, Wilson was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Shuttle Operations Branch involving the Space Shuttle Main Engines, External Tank and Solid Rocket Boosters.