A retired NASA astronaut whose first and only space flight set a duration record for the space shuttle, has died. Captain Charles E. Brady, Jr. was 54 when he passed away on July 23. Brady was ...

John Casper is a veteran of four space shuttle missions – three as commander and one as pilot – and logged more than 825 hours in space between 1990 and 1996. He completed his first mission in 1990, ...