Astronauts

With the Mars simulation, Haney suggests that NASA should watch the crew for danger signs, like symptoms of depression, heightened irritability, and moodiness, and changes in sleeping and…

Last night, an Axiom Space mission carrying a private crew blasted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading towards the International Space Station. The crew of four, led by…

Light flashes no danger for short space flights – Science News, May 12, 1973 The light flashes and streaks seen by astronauts have long been attributed to high-energy,…

As fresh food is so important for astronauts, there are several different methods they use to grow crops on the ISS. The first is a carry-on suitcase-sized garden called…

Taking off from Launch Complex 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Orion capsule will take the four selected astronauts on a four-day trip to the moon taking…

This is where Moonlight will come in. The system may involve three navigation satellites in lunar orbit plus one dedicated to communication. That way, multiple satellites can ping Earth at…

The NASA astronauts headed to the Moon and beyond in the Artemis program will wear updated suits, and they look pretty slick. Axiom Space, a space contractor hired by the US…

When astronauts begin to build a permanent base on the moon, as NASA plans to do in the coming years, they'll need help. Robots could potentially do the heavy lifting by laying cables,…

In 1976, NASA was drawing up plans to develop a series of large space stations that would sit in high Earth orbit. Stations would run on solar power and would have been much…

Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in 2001 when he spent six days visiting the ISS. Twenty years later, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin successfully landed their…