• Koch will beat out former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who was in space for 288 days two years ago. (theweek.com)
  • The Ax-2 crew included Axiom Space's Director of Human Spaceflight and Commander Peggy Whitson, a former NASA astronaut, Pilot John Shoffner, and Mission Specialists Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, from the Saudi Space Commission (SSC). (daijiworld.com)
  • Peggy Whitson -- NASA Astronaut and Biochemist We continue to recognize 50 Years of Women in Space with STEM Role Model Peggy Whitson. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Peggy Whitson grew up on a farm in Iowa with big dreams of becoming a NASA Astronaut. (scienceblogs.com)
  • The US record for most days in space over a lifetime is held by former astronaut Peggy Whitson, with 675 days during several missions. (yahoo.com)
  • Aboard the International Space Station, they join NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov, as well as NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, sheltered in a Soyuz spacecraft on the Russian segment. (abc.net.au)
  • In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, astronaut Zhu Yangzhu waves as he is carried out of the re-entry capsule of the Shenzhou-14 manned space mission after it landed successfully at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (wgntv.com)
  • In this image from video made available by NASA, a SpaceX capsule, slowed by parachutes, splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast, Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, as it returns to Earth with NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi, NASA astronaut Warren (Woody) Hoburg and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyaev after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. (counton2.com)
  • Price will increase to $14.99/month on 10/12/2023. (hulu.com)
  • Chinese astronauts for the Shenzhou-17 mission, from left, Jiang Xinlin, Tang Hongbo and Tang Shengjie wave to attendees during a send-off ceremony for their manned space mission at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. (kget.com)
  • The U.S., meanwhile, aims to put astronauts back on the lunar surface by the end of 2025 as part of a renewed commitment to crewed missions, aided by private sector players such as SpaceX and Blue Origin. (wgntv.com)
  • NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, right are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • The SpaceX Crew-2 mission, which lifted off on April 23 , is made up of NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, as well as Akihiko Hoshide of Japan's space agency and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • The SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying the four-person crew of NASA astronauts Josh Kasada and Nicole Mann, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina and Japan's Koichi Wakata blasted off from the International Space Station (ISS) at 2:20 a.m. (gulfnews.ca)
  • SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance approaches the International Space Station on October 6, 2022 with four Crew-5 astronauts. (gulfnews.ca)
  • The astronauts underwent additional training last September on expeditionary skills at the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • In a move that returns the U.S. to manned spaceflight, NASA has awarded Boeing and California-based SpaceX with contracts worth a total of $6.8 billion to launch astronauts into space. (latimes.com)
  • The contracts landed by Hawthorne-based SpaceX and Chicago-based Boeing Co. are aimed at continuing the final development of spacecraft that will take astronauts to the space station. (latimes.com)
  • Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida. (thehindu.com)
  • Astronauts Kate Rubins (left) and Jeff Williams (right) looking out of the ISS' cupola at a SpaceX Dragon supply spacecraft. (universetoday.com)
  • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 27 (Reuters) - Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived ahead of schedule at the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and docked their SpaceX capsule, just two days after the last crew to depart the orbiting outpost returned to Earth. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Rendezvous of the Crew Dragon capsule with the station less than 16 hours after launch of the astronauts from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked one of the fastest flights by Elon Musk's SpaceX to the ISS from liftoff to docking, NASA webcast commentators said. (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • The latest SpaceX launch has departed the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida , carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). (wigantoday.net)
  • SpaceX, the American aerospace company founded by entrepreneur Elon Musk , once again provided the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule - used to transport the astronauts - to NASA. (wigantoday.net)
  • The crew will stay on the ISS for six months, and will return to Earth after being joined by another SpaceX-launched crew for a brief handover. (wigantoday.net)
  • It carried NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to complete a long-term spaceflight, and the European Space Agency's Samantha Cristoforetti. (thehindu.com)
  • The Freedom crew consists of three American NASA astronauts - flight commander Kjell Lindgren, 49, mission pilot Bob Hines, 47, and mission specialist Jessica Watkins, 33 - as well as Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, 45, of the European Space Agency (ESA). (dailymaverick.co.za)
  • Tang is a veteran who led a 2021 space mission for three months. (kget.com)
  • Boeing was set to launch its first round of astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida , to the space station this summer, however, weeks before the July launch date, mission managers revealed two new problems discovered with the spacecraft. (wogx.com)
  • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Four astronauts returned to Earth early Monday after a six-month stay at the International Space Station. (counton2.com)
  • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The four astronauts assigned to fly around the moon in another year got their first look at their spacecraft, as NASA warned Tuesday there could be more delays. (wdtn.com)
  • The Crew-6 astronauts - Woody Hoberg and Stephen Bowen of NASA, Sultan Al Neyadi of the United Arab Emirates and astronaut Andrey Fedayev - are scheduled to live on the ISS for the next six months. (gulfnews.ca)
  • Returning were NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, Russia's Andrei Fedyaev and the United Arab Emirates' Sultan al-Neyadi, the first person from the Arab world to spend an extended time in orbit. (counton2.com)
  • UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi and other members of Crew-6 are back on Earth. (gulfnews.com)
  • Chinese astronaut Ye Guangfu sits outside the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 space mission after landing at the Dongfeng landing site in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Saturday. (wsiu.org)
  • Four astronauts who've spent the past six months aboard the International Space Station as part of the first operational mission of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule are back on Earth after splashing down safely on Saturday in the Gulf of Mexico. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • After the capsule pulled back from the orbital outpost, NASA astronaut Josh Cassada said, "It's great to be on the International Space Station. (gulfnews.ca)
  • After Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley left the ISS aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on Aug. 1, Cassidy became the only NASA astronaut in space. (ibtimes.com)
  • It has been a buzz-worthy year for NASA's female astronauts: Last month, Koch and Anne McClain were among NASA's top picks for its first female-led spacewalk . (theweek.com)
  • Crew-5's Dragon, named Endurance, was briefly modified to accommodate an additional passenger - NASA's Frank Rubio, one of the three Soyuz astronauts - in case an emergency evacuation of the ISS was required. (gulfnews.ca)
  • Clifford was diagnosed in 1994 at age 42, four years after he'd been asked to join NASA's elite astronaut corps. (michaeljfox.org)
  • Hernández said the desire to be an astronaut stuck with him throughout his life, leading to his application to be a part of NASA's program, but he was rejected 11 times. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • Because of her persistence and being equipped with a doctorate in physics from Stanford University, she applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) where she was selected as one of NASA's first six female astronauts. (cdc.gov)
  • Under the contracts, the companies will have a goal of performing a test flight to the space station with a NASA astronaut in 2017. (latimes.com)
  • Since the original group, the total number of astronaut groups has grown to 22 as of 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here are the candidates who made it to the Top 32 in the 2017 Canadian astronaut recruitment campaign. (gc.ca)
  • Boeing managers revealed the company has months of work remaining to get the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft ready for its first NASA astronaut flight to the International Space Station. (wogx.com)
  • Mike Hopkins was joined on the mission by two other NASA astronauts - rookie Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, who previously flew aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft - and Japan's Soichi Noguchi. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • The contracts mark a significant shift for the space agency that grounded the space shuttle and relies on Russian spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station. (latimes.com)
  • Today we are one step closer to launching our astronauts from U.S. soil on American spacecraft," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said . (latimes.com)
  • NASA astronaut Steve Bowen exits the spacecraft with a big smile. (gulfnews.com)
  • Li told the media at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Inner Mongolia ahead of the launch of the spacecraft that takes the three astronauts to the space station called Tiangong that China has recently initiated under the lunar landing phase of its manned lunar exploration programme. (telegraphindia.com)
  • Lab tests of former NASA astronaut Scott Kelley, who was in space for nearly a year, compared his DNA to that of his twin brother - revealing how space flight can damage DNA and the brain, says The Verge . (theweek.com)
  • Former NASA astronaut and military test pilot Rich Clifford is no exception. (michaeljfox.org)
  • The remaining NASA astronaut in space has paid tribute to the victims of the powerful explosions that rocked Beirut, Lebanon last week. (ibtimes.com)
  • Twoastronauts in Earth orbit are settling into the International Space Station(ISS) for what they expect to be a busy six-month spaceflight. (space.com)
  • NASA astronaut Sunita Williams exercises on the Cycle Ergometer in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. (popsci.com)
  • Medical experts with NASA and its collaborators scanned the wrists and ankles of 17 astronauts (majority male) before, during, and after they'd spent months on the International Space Station (ISS). (popsci.com)
  • The Saudi Space Commission (SCC) has confirmed that the Saudi astronauts are ready for the mission to the International Space Station (ISS) this month, after completing the rigorous nine months training program for the flight. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • The astronaut also posted a photo of the affected area taken from the International Space Station (ISS). (ibtimes.com)
  • There's also visual impairment, known as Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS), which many astronauts reported after spending two months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). (universetoday.com)
  • Astronauts on the International Space Station experiencing freefall. (universetoday.com)
  • NASA astronauts will take you on a journey to the International Space Station, and showcase the life-changing experience of an orbital perspective. (hulu.com)
  • Four astronauts, including the first woman from Saudi Arabia, of the American private space habitat company Axiom Space have returned safely to Earth after spending eight days on their second mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the company has said. (daijiworld.com)
  • UAE continues to break barriers when it comes to space exploration, even after Emirati astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi came back home after spending six months on the International Space Station (ISS). (khaleejtimes.com)
  • In a breakthrough revelation, Leroy Chiao, an astronaut with the NASA, tells he came across Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in space back in 2005, while he was serving as the commander of the International Space Station (ISS). (lecanadian.com)
  • The astronaut Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest in orbit mission by an American, spending more than 355 days aboard the International Space Station. (yahoo.com)
  • NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) experience changes to the visual system that raise concerns about the possibility of vision loss during future manned missions to Mars or other destinations, according to researchers. (medscape.com)
  • Astronaut Christina Koch will soon break the record for longest single spaceflight by a woman, NASA announced Wednesday. (theweek.com)
  • Wang Yaping is one of the three astronauts aboard the Shenzhou 13 spaceflight mission set to launch early Saturday, local time. (wyso.org)
  • Astronauts intraining are the tip of the iceberg in the spaceflight business, andthus are in high demand to be seen in the international partnercountries. (nasa.gov)
  • Of the five members of the group who have flown in space as of April 2020, all five place on the list of then longest spaceflights for NASA astronauts, with Koch holding the record for the longest single spaceflight for a woman. (wikipedia.org)
  • This group of seven astronauts, also sometimes known as the "Original Seven" or the "Mercury Seven" were a part of the first human spaceflight program, called Project Mercury. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Ax-2 mission is the first commercial human spaceflight mission to include both private astronauts and astronauts representing foreign governments, as well as the first private mission commanded by a female. (daijiworld.com)
  • Meanwhile, the three astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu, and Gui Haichao who were selected to travel by the Shenzhou-16 spaceflight mission to join the orbiting space station on Tuesday also interacted with the media. (telegraphindia.com)
  • We acquired resting-state fMRI data of cosmonauts before, shortly after, and eight months after spaceflight as a follow-up to assess global connectivity changes over time. (bvsalud.org)
  • Between crew swaps, the space station is home to seven astronauts. (counton2.com)
  • With seven astronauts aboard the station (which orbits Earth at over 250 miles an hour), the amount of experiments that can be performed in its microgravity environment triple. (wigantoday.net)
  • The previous crew of China's orbiting space station returned to earth Tuesday morning, all reportedly in good health, amid a sharpening rivalry with the U.S. over space exploration and plans to put astronauts on the moon before 2030. (wgntv.com)
  • China made its first crewed space mission in 2003 and plans to put astronauts on the moon before 2030. (wgntv.com)
  • JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (AP) - China launched its youngest-ever crew for its orbiting space station on Thursday as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon before 2030. (kget.com)
  • Atthe time, I thought that I was not worthy of becoming an astronaut becauseastronauts and cosmonauts had special qualities that I didn't have,"Vinogradov, 52, said before his flight, adding that it was only after workingalongside actual space flyers that he gained confidence. (space.com)
  • When Rubio traveled to the ISS last year on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two cosmonauts, the plan was for him to stay six months, which is the usual mission length. (yahoo.com)
  • During the mission, astronaut Wang Yaping carried out the first spacewalk by a Chinese woman. (wingsmagazine.com)
  • Wang Yaping , 41, will be the first female "taikonaut" - the term China uses for its astronauts - to board the station. (wyso.org)
  • Nothing else looks like that … that's what gave me shivers," astronaut Christina Koch told reporters. (wdtn.com)
  • Her promising future ended in 2003 when she died with 6 fellow astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia over Texas. (scienceblogs.com)
  • It is worth noting that the SSC had earlier launched the Astronauts Program, with the aim of qualifying experienced Saudi candidates to embark on space flights that participate in scientific experiments, international research and future space-related missions. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • Astronaut candidates go through two years of training. (wikipedia.org)
  • Congratulations Dr. Meir and the rest of the 2013 Astronaut Candidates! (scienceblogs.com)
  • The candidates participating in the astronaut selection process all have unique journeys and outstanding qualities and skills. (gc.ca)
  • The astronaut candidates during the second series of aptitude tests. (gc.ca)
  • According to NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, "it's… a reflection of how many really talented women are in science and engineering these days. (wikipedia.org)
  • They relieved the station's former tenants- Expedition12 commander Bill McArthur and flight engineer Valery Tokarev - whohad concluded their own six-month mission. (space.com)
  • Zhai, the mission commander, has said he expects the six months of weightlessness to be the biggest hurdle for the crew, calling it "a big challenge to our physical and mental situation. (wyso.org)
  • 44-year old Victor Glover from California is travelling to space for the first time, serving as Pilot and making history as the first African-American astronaut to stay on a long duration mission to the ISS. (wigantoday.net)
  • China launched its first astronaut into space in 2003 and landed robot rovers on the moon in 2013 and on Mars last year. (wingsmagazine.com)
  • The astronauts are the first U.S. crew to make a nighttime splashdown since 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission to orbit the moon. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • Beijing is pursuing plans to place astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade amid a rivalry with the U.S. for reaching new milestones in outer space. (kget.com)
  • I saw astronaut Gene Cernan walking on the moon. (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • The aim of space powers, such as the US, Russia and China, is to set up bases on the Moon for astronauts to live in, Dr McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US told BBC earlier. (telegraphindia.com)
  • Williams and Vinogradov hope to then welcome anaddition to their mission, European Space Agency astronaut ThomasReiter , who will return the station crew complement to its regularthree-person crew size for the first time since the 2003 Columbia accident. (space.com)
  • A mission to Mars would take months longer. (space.com)
  • You may remember astronaut Scott Kelly as the man who will embark on a year-long mission in space to investigate space's effects on the human body with the help of his twin brother in March 2015. (themarysue.com)
  • BEIJING (AP) - Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after six months aboard their country's newest orbital station in the longest crewed mission to date for China's ambitious space program. (wingsmagazine.com)
  • The three astronauts from China's Shenzhou-15 manned spaceship have arrived in Beijing after their safe return to Earth following a six-month space station mission. (gov.pk)
  • The scientists calculate that over 500 kg of high-strength AstroCrete could be produced over the course of a two-year mission on the surface of Mars by a crew of six astronauts. (finchannel.com)
  • The astronauts, Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni, will conduct 14 pioneering scientific research experiments in the microgravity environment including three educational awareness experiments during the mission on the ISS. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • The astronauts underwent their training at the NASA Johnson Center within the Human Exploration Research Analog (HERA) program which is designed to push people to the extremes and to prepare the team for their AX-2 mission to the ISS. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • Both astronauts stressed their enthusiasm and readiness to carry out this mission. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • And having private companies handle transporting astronauts in low-Earth orbit, he said, "will allow NASA to focus on an even more ambitious mission: sending humans to Mars. (latimes.com)
  • In the final training period, the astronauts focus on the specific requirements for their mission. (wikipedia.org)
  • UAE's analog astronauts are training hard to prepare for the Analog Mission , which will see them living in Mars-like conditions in near-total isolation for eight months. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • The mission will commence next month. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • During the meeting, Sheikh Hamdan was briefed on MBRSC's latest accomplishments, including the success of the longest Arab space mission, led by UAE astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi and the UAE's collaboration with international space agencies and leading local and international universities. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • Astronauts undergo various imaging studies, including pre- and post-mission intraorbital and intracranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight studies using ultrasound and ocular coherence tomography. (medscape.com)
  • In addition, some astronauts have undergone post-mission lumbar puncture (LP) that showed "predominantly borderline elevation" of LP opening pressures. (medscape.com)
  • These results study could be crucial to overcoming a type of blindness that frequently develops in astronauts on long-duration space flights. (universetoday.com)
  • Missions to the ISS usually last about six months, and researchers have documented neuro-ocular changes in about two dozen astronauts returning from these long-duration space flights, Dr. Lee told Reuters Health by phone. (medscape.com)
  • The four-man crew includes three Americans and a highly experienced astronaut from the Japanese space agency (Jaxa). (wigantoday.net)
  • But those mods were removed last month, after Russia launched a replacement Soyuz that will carry Rubio and his two Russian crewmen to Earth this fall. (gulfnews.ca)
  • According to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, the trial broke the previous record for the longest test run which was achieved less than six months before this latest trial. (gov.pk)
  • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Tuesday morning after six months aboard China's orbiting space station. (wgntv.com)
  • She will be the the first Chinese female astronaut to visit the latest China's space station. (wyso.org)
  • China's Tiangong space station will have its first female astronaut after a trio of spacefarers blasted off for a six-month stay aboard the orbital outpost. (wyso.org)
  • Jing will become the country's first astronaut to go into space for a fourth time. (telegraphindia.com)
  • NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy shared a view of Beirut, Lebanon, from space on Aug. 11, 2020. (ibtimes.com)
  • NASA said US astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, had to take shelter in their docked capsules as the space station passed through the debris field. (abc.net.au)
  • Even if astronaut ice cream were on Apollo 7, it would probably have been rehydratable food similar to most of the other food options on the flight, not the freeze-dried block we recognize today. (vox.com)
  • Astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni have expressed their pride and gratitude in representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in their first sustainable Human Space Flight (HSF) program and to help realize its ambition in the field of space. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • Investigations into the capsule's heat shield, however, could delay this first lunar trip by astronauts in more than half a century. (wdtn.com)
  • The main issue remains SpaceX's Starship, the rocketship that will carry two NASA astronauts from lunar orbit down to the south pole. (wdtn.com)
  • McArthurand Tokarev returned to Earth on April 8 with Brazil's first astronaut MarcosPontes, who launched toward the ISS with the Expedition 13 crew on March 29. (space.com)
  • Crew-5 astronauts have spent five months beyond Earth. (gulfnews.ca)
  • A study published on June 30 in the journal Scientific Reports found that spending just a few months in space changes astronauts' bones, causing a loss of density equivalent to what most humans would lose in a couple of decades on Earth. (popsci.com)
  • One hypothesis that the new study tested is whether astronauts can recuperate their lost bone mass by spending enough time back on Earth. (popsci.com)
  • The mission's objective is to inspire students and those interested in space science, whilst stressing the importance of research, the lives of astronauts and the role of integrative science on improving the quality of life on Earth. (eyeofriyadh.com)
  • View Earth as you've never seen it before: through the eyes of an astronaut. (hulu.com)
  • FOX40.COM ) - Outer space may reach a million miles away and beyond, but the story of José Moreno Hernández, a Stockton farmworker who went on to become an astronaut with NASA and made the trip into outer space will be on screens here on Earth at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month . (bigcountryhomepage.com)
  • The US space agency says it is entering a new era in which routine astronaut journeys to low- Earth orbit are conducted by commercial providers. (wigantoday.net)
  • Incredibly, despite it being hundreds of miles above our heads, the astronauts' new home can be observed from Earth. (wigantoday.net)
  • Future studies will include studying astronauts who spend longer periods on the ISS, Dr. Lee said, and trying to find "terrestrial analogs on Earth," such as head-down studies, that can mimic what scientists have observed in terms of the cephalad fluid shift. (medscape.com)
  • The astronauts said it was incredible to be back. (counton2.com)
  • After one year back at home, nine astronauts still hadn't recovered the density of their shinbones. (popsci.com)
  • This mimicked the effects of variable gravity on the cerebrospinal fluid pressure, simulating what astronauts experience while transitioning to microgravity and back. (universetoday.com)
  • They topped the old record by nearly three months, unexpectedly tacking on a few more days this week after high winds in the Gulf delayed their originally planned April 28 return. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • She said that upon their return, the astronauts will be in a "semi-quarantine" because weeks in space have caused their immune systems to be a "little bit depressed. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • As an international team of volunteers in Russia approaches the three-month mark in its ambitious simulation of a 520-day flight to Mars, researchers are keeping aclose watch on how the six men are physically and psychologically coping. (space.com)
  • That arrangement, which was always intended to be temporary, has become strained in recent months amid tensions between Russia and the West over the situation in Ukraine and Crimea. (latimes.com)
  • While mostISS crews train together for years before launching into space, changes in crewrotation plans gave Williams - who originally trained to command astation flight and served as McArthur's Expedition 12 backup - andVinogradov about seven months to mesh as a crew. (space.com)
  • Despite thelate crew change, the Expedition 13 astronauts are both experienced spaceflyers. (space.com)
  • A cross-disciplinary team of researchers led by the University of Western Australia (UWA) has developed a breakthrough method for measuring brain fluid pressure that could reduce the risk of SANS for astronauts on long-duration spaceflights. (universetoday.com)
  • China was the third nation to launch an astronaut into space on its own after the former Soviet Union and the United States. (wingsmagazine.com)
  • In addition to their daily routine of experiments and chores, the mock astronauts havefound ways to keep themselves busy. (space.com)
  • Kanas and his team have studied crews that spent four to seven months isolated on thespace station. (space.com)
  • Astronauts who spent the longest time on the ISS-four to seven months-showed the slowest recovery of bone density. (popsci.com)
  • INSKEEP: How have you prepared for this in recent months and years? (wkar.org)
  • I really enjoyed learning more about her life story in this video and I am looking forward to hearing more about her accomplishments as an Astronaut in the years to come. (scienceblogs.com)
  • On Months-Long Missions, How Durable Is An Astronaut's Mind? (space.com)
  • The so-called Space Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome is one of the most serious risks for astronauts on long-duration flights and one that NASA identified as a significant challenge on future crewed missions to Mars. (universetoday.com)
  • 1. UAE astronauts Mohammed Al Mulla and Nora Al Matroushi are all set to blast off into space in 2024 on important missions. (khaleejtimes.com)
  • It will provide the station's 9-10 overwinterers with fresh food throughout the year while testing various technologies that will keep astronauts alive on long-duration space missions. (gc.ca)