Dr. Leroy Chiao gives a thumb up shortly after landing aboard the Soyuz-TMA-5 spacecraft in Kazakhstan in April 2005. AFP via Getty Images. The two objects were “10 feet to the left and 10 feet ...

A former NASA commander has revealed that while piloting his private plane in Texas last summer he nearly had a collision with two mysterious “metallic, spherical orbs.” Astronaut Leroy Chiao ...

Dr. Leroy Chiao in his Grumman AA5BTiger taking off from the runway of his flying community near NASA headquarters in Houston. Leroy has been flying small planes since 1984 and bought the plane he ...

Searching for home from space: Chiao's story By Raymond Zhou (China Daily) Updated: 2005-04-19 07:25. Some 350 kilometres from earth and orbiting it once every 90 minutes, a mesmerized Leroy Chiao ...

Today marks the beginning of the journey home for two astronauts who have unexpectedly been on the International Space Station for nine months. Former astronaut and ISS commander Leroy Chiao joins ...

American astronaut Leroy Chiao, right, gives a thumbs-up during the ride from the suit up facility at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the launch pad as he and his Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft ...

Astronaut Leroy Chiao, who just finished his last mission for NASA, a six-month stint commanding the International Space Station, has a new mission. He wants to get people of all ages jazzed about ...

Editor’s Note: Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and commander aboard the International Space Station. During his 15-year career, he flew four missions into space – three on space ...

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao may have commanded a real-life space station, but "Star Trek" gave him an early push.

Leroy Chiao is the CEO and co-founder of OneOrbit LLC, a motivational, training and education company. He served as a NASA astronaut from 1990-2005 and flew four missions into space aboard three ...