Brazilian bloggers’ reactions to the space flight of Marcos Pontes, the first Brazilian astronaut, run the gamut along a scale from enthusiasm to cynicism. At the “unqualified joy” end of the scale an ...
American, Russian and Brazilian astronauts endured a bone-jarring, three-and-a-half hour ride from the international space station back to Earth on Sunday, landing on target in the freezing Kazakh ...
Marcos Pontes (standing), a former astronaut and Brazil's current science and technology minister, discusses efforts to build awareness about space among other parliamentarians at an Oct. 24 briefing.