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CARTHAGE, Mo. — Dr. Janet Kavandi was born January 17, 1959 and graduated from Carthage High School as Valedictorian. She is married to John Kavandi, they have two children.

It has been nearly 20 years since the seven crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t make it home, and NASA leaders will gather today at Kennedy Space Center, Washington D.C. and other locations to commemorate their lives as well as those from Space Shuttle Challenger and Apollo 1 on the Day of Remembrance.

The Iowa native was lunar module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission in 1968, the first successful crewed flight of NASAs Apollo programme.

University students Sauviz Alaei and Nathan Pharis named 2021 Astronaut Scholars.

>> the dawn of this day heralded the dawning of a new age. its a time of exhileration, reflection, hope, fulfillment. as a centuries old dream starts toward reality. >> this is launch control. t-minus four hours, three minutes, 32 seconds and counting. right on time as far as the astronaut countdown is concerned the crew now departing their quarters here at the kendeigh space center. astronauts neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, and mike collins plus their suit technicians and director of flight crew ...

Balloon. i talked to two of the people behind this cool endeavor about it. mark kelly is director of flight crew operations for world view enterprises, former astronaut, and jane pointer is the ceo of world view enterprises. cool idea. i mean, really, really cool. 100,000 feet, you need oxygen at that level. >> oh, yeah. you need more than oxygen. you need a space suit if youre outside the capsule. >> youre not going to be outside. and thats the, you know, unique thing were going to do here is t...