The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission is poised for liftoff, with Zena Cardman serving as the commander of the four-person crew. Along with pilot Mike Fincke, mission specialists Kimiya Yui of JAXA and Oleg ...

An alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will command a SpaceX flight at the end of this month NASA said ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission, trains for her mission at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, ahead of her flight to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, trains for her mission at a SpaceX facility in Hawthorne, California, ahead of her flight to the International Space Station.

Zena Cardman, an astronaut who holds two degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill, will make her first visit to space as early as this summer — and UNC graduates will get to hear from her before her launch.

“Had the honor of meeting virtually today with Williamsburg’s own Zena Cardman — the NASA Astronaut and Crew-9 Commander who will soon be heading to the International Space Station for 6 months.

In the 1997 film Contact, based on the book by Carl Sagan, Ellie Arroway played by Jodie Foster comments on her view of the cosmos: "They should have sent a poet." NASA has that chance now in UNC ...

Zena Cardman knew she might not have another opportunity to pursue poetry. She was about to dive into graduate research on microbiology in extreme environments when she put that plan on ice, and ...

Cardman and the ten other astronauts are the first to join NASA since its Artemis program was announced. The program aims to send the first humans to the moon since 1972 in 2024, and to Mars in ...

NASA astronaut Zena Cardman will be the keynote speaker at UNC’s spring 2024 Commencement, the University announced Thursday morning.. She will address the spring 2024 graduates at the ceremony ...

Zena Cardman (far left) and Stephanie Wilson (2nd to right) were forced to give up seats so stranded colleagues could hitch a ride back in their empty seats.