Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
The six NASA astronauts who are living off planet at the moment just beamed a special birthday message down to their home country.
Mike Barratt, Matt Dominick, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Jeanette Epps, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore each took a turn at the mic, saying a few words about the Fourth of July from their perch aboard the"The Fourth of July always reminds me of the freedoms that we continue to fight for every day, all over the world," Epps said in theThe six NASA astronauts currently living on the International Space Station send a Fourth of July message down to Earth in 2024.
Barratt came prepared, holding copies of the Declaration of Independence, the first draft of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights."They're sacred because they provided a framework for this idea of an independent, multicultural democracy to form and actually function," he added."And we're still building our more perfect union; everybody knows that.
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