• Her promising future ended in 2003 when she died with 6 fellow astronauts aboard the shuttle Columbia over Texas. (scienceblogs.com)
  • A total of four astronauts will travel aboard the Crew Dragon later this year. (engadget.com)
  • Astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery used the sunglint off the surface of the Mediterranean Sea to reveal biogenic films on the ocean surface ("Biogenic film" refers to a thin layer of biologically-produced film resting on the surface. (nasa.gov)
  • Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be far away from family and friends this Thanksgiving but will still enjoy what sounds like a great meal. (astronomy.com)
  • Astronauts aboard two different spacecraft in different orbits celebrated Thanksgiving in the mid-90s. (astronomy.com)
  • Charlie is a cat astronaut aboard his Rover and he needs your help. (steampowered.com)
  • It's back to the future as NASA astronauts launch again from the U.S. - aboard a retro-style "Right Stuff" capsule. (sltrib.com)
  • The astronauts will manually dock with the Tiangong 1 module that was launched last year and conduct scientific experiments while aboard, Xinhua said. (salon.com)
  • Christmas came a day late for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with the successful Wednesday arrival of a Russian cargo ship bearing gifts and fresh supplies. (livescience.com)
  • Tucked aboard the Progress 27 are about 2.5 tons of propellant, oxygen, fresh fruit, equipment and other vital supplies for the station's three-astronaut crew. (livescience.com)
  • Highly trained astronauts are ultimately responsible for all that happens aboard the ISS, so they need to deal with immediate emergencies while maintaining and upgrading the station for future astronauts. (psychologytoday.com)
  • There's not much astronauts aboard the ISS to do other than work, and photography is a popular pastime making it easy to recruit crew members to participate. (slashgear.com)
  • But out in space, none of these things come naturally-which is why it's so amazing that astronauts have managed to grow flowers aboard the International Space Station. (mentalfloss.com)
  • French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who will join the ISS in November next year, is already preparing his dream space menu. (spacedaily.com)
  • Peggy Whitson, center, and Shane Kimbrough, right, will venture outside the lab Friday while Kimbrough and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, will carry out a second EVA one week later, on Friday, Jan. 13. (spaceflightnow.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)
  • Kalpana Chawla -- Aerospace Engineer, NASA Astronaut Born in the small town of Karnal, India, she became hooked on flight when she took her first plane ride in a small craft through the local flying club. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Kalpana Chawla would later become a certified FAA flight instructor, a talented aerospace engineer, and a NASA astronaut. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Comparative Physiologist, Dr. Jessica Meir, selected as a 2013 NASA Astronaut Candidate! (scienceblogs.com)
  • NASA astronaut Scott Kelly can brag about having a green thumb all day long, and we wouldn't mind at all. (engadget.com)
  • At the same time, NASA astronaut John E. Blaha celebrated Thanksgiving on the Russian space station, Mir , with cosmonauts Valeri G. Korzun and Aleksandr Y. Kaleri. (astronomy.com)
  • But the record was broken in 1997 when NASA astronaut David A. Wolf, Russian cosmonauts Anatoli Y. Solovev, and Pavel V. Vinogradov were on Mir. (astronomy.com)
  • Jonny Kim was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017. (nasa.gov)
  • This monument dedicated to "Seven Astronauts" who died national heroes as members of the crew of the "Challenger" January 28, 1986 ------------------------------ Erected in their memory by the students of Elizabeth October 22, 1986, Francis R. Scobee Commander NASA Astronaut, Michael J. Smith Lt. Comdr. (hmdb.org)
  • USN NASA Astronaut, Ellison S. Onizuka Lt. Col. USAF NASA Astronaut, Ronald E. McNair Ph. (hmdb.org)
  • D. NASA Astronaut, Judith A. Resnik Ph. (hmdb.org)
  • D. NASA Astronaut, Sharon Christa McAuliffe First Teacher in Space, Gregory B. Jarvis Payload Specalist. (hmdb.org)
  • NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley (C) waves to onlookers as he boards a plane at Naval Air Station Pensacola to return him and NASA astronaut Robert Behnken home to Houston a few hours after the duo landed in their SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Fla,, on August 2, 2020. (upi.com)
  • NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, takes a selfie while participating in spacewalk on Dec 27, 2013. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Every seat in Lundmarkssalen was full, and around 50 additional visitors followed on zoom, as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk gave his talk on Monday afternoon. (lu.se)
  • Jim Pawelczyk is not only a NASA astronaut but also an associate professor of physiology and kinesiology at PennState University studying the effects of microgravity on the human body. (lu.se)
  • When the seven astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour docked Friday afternoon with the six crewmen of the International Space Station, they set a record for the number of space flyers together in the heavens. (go.com)
  • Two astronauts from the crew of the space shuttle Endeavour have conducted a successful spacewalk Wednesday. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Atlantis shuttle astronaut Robert Satcher Jr., STS-129 mission specialist, holds a camera during his mission's first spacewalk of his mission to the International Space Station on Nov. 19, 2009. (space.com)
  • On Nov. 22, 1973, astronauts Gerald P. Carr, William E. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson celebrated with two meals at dinner time after the team completed a spacewalk that took 6 hours and 33 minutes. (astronomy.com)
  • Astronaut Ed White during the first American spacewalk, June 3, 1965. (popsci.com)
  • Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken entered the station at 1:22 p.m. (upi.com)
  • SpaceX via AP) Astronauts Doug Hurley, foreground, and Bob Behnken work in SpaceX's flight simulator at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on March 19, 2020, as SpaceX teams in Firing Room 4 at Kennedy Space Center and the company's Mission Control in Hawthorne, Calif., along with NASA flight controllers in Mission Control Houston, run a full simulation of launch and docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft. (sltrib.com)
  • This fresh take on a vintage look will be on full display Wednesday when SpaceX plans to launch NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station - a first for a private company. (sltrib.com)
  • The successful 19-hour journey to the space station makes SpaceX the first private company to send astronauts into orbit. (upi.com)
  • We've long been familiar with the traditional astronauts' fare of liquid meals and freeze-dried food stuffs-oh, and Tang-but when considering plans to send astronauts further afield and beyond the reach of supply vessels, the AFT has found it must create healthier space-meals and methods to grow food in zero-gravity. (inhabitat.com)
  • We go on expeditions on Earth with fellow astronauts for long durations before to get used to this notion that the most important people right now are the few people who are here with me, and I must get along with them. (psychologytoday.com)
  • In fact, NASA is working towards sending astronauts to Mars sometime in the 2030's. (scienceblogs.com)
  • But when travelling further into space, such as to an asteroid or Mars, astronauts will be exposed to radiation doses close to NASA's acceptable lifetime limits , upping their chances of developing illnesses from damaged DNA. (newscientist.com)
  • But people with variants of the liver gene CYP2D6 can metabolise drugs such as the painkiller codeine too quickly, potentially leading to an overdose - and there is no hospital en route to Mars. (newscientist.com)
  • Three years ago SINTEF was investigating whether snake robots could help astronauts working on Mars with mobility and access. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Perseverance Mission - Astronaut Charlie is a puzzle game set on Mars. (steampowered.com)
  • NASA is hiring more astronauts because they're planning a lot of missions in the coming years, including trips that will pave the way to landing a person on Mars, NASA's current long-term goal for crewed missions. (popsci.com)
  • On previous missions, a lack of gravity has meant that taste and smell has hindered food preparation, but NASA are ensuring that for missions to Mars, astronauts will be able to chop vegetables, cook and grow plants in a hydroponic solution. (inhabitat.com)
  • The nature of weightlessness, ionizing radiation, and psychological isolation need to be better understood in order to make spaceflight safer for astronauts of the future when we venture off to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond," said former Canadian astronaut Robert Thrisk at the exhibit launch. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Space Shuttle astronauts have photographed these dusts storms several times. (nasa.gov)
  • As the Space Shuttle Atlantis passed over southern Egypt in mid-March 2001, the STS-102 astronauts were able to document new flooding in the Toshka region west of Lake Nasser. (nasa.gov)
  • Astronaut photographs from the Gemini era and from the space shuttle reveal tremendous growth. (nasa.gov)
  • Shuttle astronauts frequently track Saharan dust storms as they blow from north Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. (nasa.gov)
  • The image was taken by Space Shuttle astronauts on July 11, 1994. (nasa.gov)
  • An astronaut on the Space Shuttle photographed several wildfires burning in California in August 2001. (nasa.gov)
  • The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center has unveiled a stained glass tribute to the 17 astronauts whose lives were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and space shuttle Columbia and Challenger accidents. (space.com)
  • The space shuttle has launched 134 times during its 30 years of service, and in that time it has ferried more than 540 astronauts into space. (livescience.com)
  • In addition to the first shuttle flight, he commanded the shuttle on three missions in the 1980s: He presided over the first five-person crew, STS-7, flew with the first female American astronaut in space, Sally Ride, on STS-41-C and commandeered the first seven-person crew (STS-41-G). He spent 23 days in space over the course of his four shuttle missions. (livescience.com)
  • Sally Ride was already a notable American physicist before she began her rather unorthodox path to becoming a space shuttle astronaut. (livescience.com)
  • The seven shuttle astronauts floated into the space station, one by one, and embraced their six station colleagues. (go.com)
  • It will be the first astronaut launch from Florida since Atlantis closed out the space shuttle program in 2011, and the first American-made capsule to carry people into orbit since the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. (sltrib.com)
  • A US astronaut has been charged with trying to kidnap a woman she thought was a rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot. (bbc.co.uk)
  • AMASS began participating in the program in 2016 with astronauts photographing locations along the North American migratory path of the Whooping Crane. (slashgear.com)
  • Atlantisshuttle astronauts Randy Bresnik - whose new daughter Abigail was bornlate Saturday back home - and Robert Satcher, Jr. plan to spend about 6 1/2hours working outside the station to install a new oxygen gas tank, materialsexperiment and other gear. (space.com)
  • 8 December 2020) NASA Astronauts Stephanie Wilson, Jonny Kim, and Randy Bresnik take a look at the Orion spacecraft simulator that recently arrived at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Dec. 8, 2020. (nasa.gov)
  • He was a member of the astronaut support crew for Skylab missions and for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which was the last Apollo mission, and the first joint U.S./Soviet space flight. (livescience.com)
  • Roughly half of astronauts have experienced back pain during missions , which is treated in space with exercise and painkillers. (newscientist.com)
  • You may not be in NASA, or even able to do the moonwalk, but you can recreate space missions on your desk with the Astronaut Light . (geekalerts.com)
  • To get ready, astronauts go on other long-duration missions on Earth to learn how to cope with others in confined environments. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Crew members for that mission are to be NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, along with Soichi Noguchi , an astronaut with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. (upi.com)
  • by LarryWhitehair, a friend of Atlantis astronaut Mike Foreman. (space.com)
  • Astronaut is the American name for a person who is trained to explore outer space , planetary moons, etc. in a spacecraft. (conservapedia.com)
  • No issues with the spacecraft have been reported -- described by a SpaceX commentator as "pretty boring for the astronauts, but that's what we wanted. (upi.com)
  • Two Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong started their monthlong stay in space on Wednesday after their spacecraft Shenzhou XI docked with Tiangong II space lab. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Since the ISS is in a constant state of freefall around Earth, astronauts "float" around the station, moving around by grabbing onto things and then pushing themselves off. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The researchers believe this is due to the brain essentially re-learning how to move the legs in freefall, and astronauts are experiencing this every moment they are in space. (extremetech.com)
  • Ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions and other popular theories about man's past. (bvsalud.org)
  • On Nov. 23, 2000, astronauts of the Expedition 1 crew celebrated the first Thanksgiving on the International Space Station. (astronomy.com)
  • I am thrilled that Comparative Physiologist Dr. Jessica Meir, who was featured in a prior post, has been chosen as a 2013 Astronaut Candidate by NASA! (scienceblogs.com)
  • NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual - and more exhausting - route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare official said, because of lockdowns caused by the novel coronavirus. (com.pk)
  • If you have questions about what it takes to be an astronaut, astronaut Shannon Walker and astronaut selection manager Anne Roemer will be taking questions at 4PM today in a Reddit Ask Me Anything . (popsci.com)
  • ORLANDO, Fla., May 31 (UPI) -- Two NASA astronauts safely boarded the International Space Station on Sunday, capping a successful flight of SpaceX 's historic Crew Dragon Demo 2 mission. (upi.com)
  • NASA and SpaceX crews on the ground congratulated the astronauts, while astronaut Chris Cassidy -- already on board the station -- welcomed them. (upi.com)
  • Extraterrestrial Gynecology: Could Spaceflight Increase the Risk of Developing Cancer in Female Astronauts? (bvsalud.org)
  • Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) already take supplements to counteract ill effects, such as vitamin D for bone strength. (newscientist.com)
  • The latest in the pack is London celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal who is crafting delicacies for British astronaut Tim Peake currently on board the International Space Station (ISS). (spacedaily.com)
  • Two astronauts plan to venture outside the International Space Station Friday, taking over from earlier robotic arm operations to help replace a set of batteries used to store power from one of the lab's four sets of solar arrays. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • Three space station astronauts will participate in two spacewalks over the next week to swap out solar array batteries on the International Space Station. (spaceflightnow.com)
  • It can be depressing sometimes if you're not careful," said Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques through a livestreamed broadcast from the International Space Station, as he joined the opening of Health in Space: Daring to Explore . (psychologytoday.com)
  • Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques works on International Space Station (ISS). (psychologytoday.com)
  • Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thrisk works with experiment hardware on International Space Station (ISS). (psychologytoday.com)
  • An astronaut stuck on moon amidst an alien invasion wave. (microsoft.com)
  • This desk lamp, which is powered by your choice of USB or batteries, features a moon as the base with an astronaut "floating" above it. (geekalerts.com)
  • It's a gooseneck lamp, so you can adjust the position of the astronaut as you like above the moon. (geekalerts.com)
  • A desk light like no other, the Astronaut Light features a floating astronaut that can be repositioned around the moon, giving you a perfect space-themed adjustable light for your desk or bedside table. (geekalerts.com)
  • Measuring 13cm high, (approximately 5.1″), the Astronaut Light features a moon base with the astronaut 'floating' above. (geekalerts.com)
  • Plan your own illuminated moon landing with this astronaut lamp. (geekalerts.com)
  • Since gravity is different in space, the astronaut can hover all around the moon. (geekalerts.com)
  • We call this the Moon, and we have explored it using space probes, different landers, and even with the help of the Apollo-astronauts. (lu.se)
  • How the Apollo-astronauts studied the Moon and how we study it today. (lu.se)
  • 10 January 2020) Graduation Ceremony of the 2017 class of Astronaut Candidates. (nasa.gov)
  • Wewrapped the Kansas state motto around [the Apollo astronaut] -- Ad Astra perAspera [To the stars through difficulty], and that really made this projectcome to life," said Ollenburger. (space.com)
  • The return to Earth for the Demo 2 mission would mark the first splashdown of a U.S. space capsule carrying astronauts since the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. (upi.com)
  • The book's title invokes an iconic image of the earth as seen from space by the Apollo astronauts. (cdc.gov)
  • Astronaut Scott Kelly and his colleagues took on the role of space gardeners, working to coax their seedlings out of the soil and into bloom. (mentalfloss.com)
  • This project sought to locate articles containing data on radiation dosimetry in outer space, to use those data to create a Location Exposure Matrix (LEM) for equivalent radiation doses in extraterrestrial environments, and then apply the LEM to the study of US astronaut mortality between April 1959 and December 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Data from the LEM were then used to estimate cumulative equivalent radiation doses for 330 US astronauts between April 1959 and December 2012. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past decade, NASA astronauts only used Russian Soyuz rockets and capsules to reach the space station, at a cost of more than $70 million per seat. (upi.com)
  • Russia's workhorse Soyuz capsules, still in use after a half-century plus, have kept NASA astronauts flying to the space station. (sltrib.com)
  • Astronauts Gerald P. Carr, Edward G. Gibson, eating on SkyLab 4. (astronomy.com)
  • It is hoped that this work can be expanded in the near future, and that it may serve as a template for similar work with other routine exposures faced by astronauts as humans continue to explore the solar system. (cdc.gov)
  • BEIJING (AP) - China's next space mission will carry three astronauts who will dock with and live inside an experimental orbiting module launched last year, state media said Friday. (salon.com)
  • He made the trip wearing just his Manned Maneuvering Unit, that jetpacklike device astronauts use on spacewalks. (livescience.com)
  • Astronauts will also go on five spacewalks, replacing batteries and installing other components. (go.com)
  • Ancient Aliens and Ancient Astronaut Theory Mark P. Robertson Educational Planning Course "Critical Issue Project" Empire State College Mary Ellen Shaughnessy June 17, 2011 There has been a lot of commotion lately between both the scientific and religious communities in regards to this topic. (bartleby.com)
  • Ancient Astronauts were believed to have helped the Egyptian civilization construct the great Pyramids. (bartleby.com)
  • If I had to choose an occupation in science I believe that I would be an Ancient astronaut theories. (bartleby.com)
  • how-astronauts-celebrate-thanksgiving-in-space https://www.astronomy.com/science/how-astronauts-celebrate-thanksgiving-in-space/ How astronauts celebrate Thanksgiving in space The crew on the ISS will enjoy turkey, duck, quail, seafood, pizza, hummus, and salsa with chocolate, pumpkin spice cappuccinos, and mochi. (astronomy.com)
  • At this time, the STS-87 crew was also in orbit on the Columbia orbiter, setting the record for nine astronauts in space on Thanksgiving Day. (astronomy.com)
  • The astronauts are expected to open the hatches between the ISS and Progress 27 at about 6:30 a.m. (livescience.com)
  • Thethematics around [the astronaut] were a combination of symbols related to thetriumphs and tragedies of space flight," Cosmosphere President and CEOJeff Ollenburger told collectSPACE , "but their real purpose was tocapture the spirit of space flight -- even amidst the difficult times the needto explore needs to continue to come out. (space.com)
  • Due to these changes of space environment from that of the Earth, astronauts will face the changes on their body and health, some of the changes would be negative. (bartleby.com)
  • Astronauts carry out experiments sent to them in boxes by their colleagues on Earth, and these experiments have to be carried out in a state of weightlessness. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Michelin-starred chefs are vying to create Christmas delights for astronauts spending the festive season 400 kilometres away from Earth and their families. (spacedaily.com)
  • Ducasse said German atsronaut Thomas Reiter, one of the first to savour these specially made dishes, "told me that this was a way for astronauts to keep touch with Earth," Ducasse said. (spacedaily.com)
  • NASA just posted the coolest job listing ever, and anyone with the right qualifications can apply to be an Astronaut Candidate. (popsci.com)
  • Blumenthal, who is known for using science in his cooking, said the challenge was to create gravity-defying but delicious food -- which for astronauts is usually dry-frozen, dehydrated or thermo-treated. (spacedaily.com)
  • Scientists working in the region used spectral analysis of an astronaut photograph digitized from film to identify areas where woodland vegetation had been heavily damaged by the elephants. (nasa.gov)
  • Since then, astronauts have conducted a number of successful gardening experiments, including a memorable 'talking' zucchini plant that kept a diary . (mentalfloss.com)
  • She set records among American Astronauts for spending the most time in space. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Though astronauts are separated from significant others on their home world, they never have any time alone on a space mission. (psychologytoday.com)
  • BLOODLETTING and vitamin pills are the future for astronaut health regimes. (newscientist.com)
  • Astronauts who have spent months in microgravity have more liquid in their brains, which may affect their vision even after they get back home. (newscientist.com)
  • Mission Control stressed that the astronaut was in no danger, and that the hole did not penetrate all the layers of his glove. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The first British astronaut to the ISS space station, Peake's mission began in the middle of this month, and the Christmas and New Year treats include dishes to remind him of home during his six-month stint. (spacedaily.com)
  • These are the astronauts' main tasks, but they also have their work cut out inspecting and maintaining all the equipment needed to keep the space station in operation. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Ney, Z. and Looper, C., "Development and Implementation of an Extravehicular Activity Skills Program for Astronauts," SAE Technical Paper 2005-01-3012, 2005, https://doi.org/10.4271/2005-01-3012 . (sae.org)
  • Because of the weightless conditions in which they live, the astronauts have to eat most of their meals from a can or aluminium envelope with a fork or spoon or risk their lunch flying all over the place. (spacedaily.com)
  • How exercise impacts bone health in adolescents, astronauts, and you! (ucalgary.ca)
  • Jasper Rine of the University of California, Berkeley, says Schmidt and Goodwin's proposal makes sense in principle, but we don't yet know enough about gene variations to predict which astronauts will have gene-based health problems. (newscientist.com)
  • Astronauts can face critical threats to their health and well-being. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Astronauts must cope with a stressful and dangerous environment in space, away from family and friends, by working together, said two astronauts at the opening of a new exhibit on space health. (psychologytoday.com)
  • Monday?sspacewalk is the third and last excursion for the six astronauts aboardAtlantis, who are delivering about 15 tons of spare parts and supplies tothe space station. (space.com)
  • The astronauts launched Nov. 16 and are due to depart thespace station Wednesday and land Friday at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center inFlorida. (space.com)
  • The astronauts slept for about eight hours before the approach to the space station. (upi.com)
  • That's why when you see pictures of astronauts on the space station they look like they have a puffy head. (newscientist.com)
  • 8 December 2012) NASA WB-57F Space Flight Readiness Training (SFRT) Program with astronaut Jonny Kim & WB-57 pilot Adam Klein. (nasa.gov)
  • She was the first Indian American Astronaut and the first Indian-born woman in space. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Saint-Jacques' candid discussion of the psychological challenges of living in space is in stark contrast to the heroic "Right Stuff" image of the 1960s that NASA used to portray of American astronauts, downplaying the stresses experienced by the earliest spacefarers. (psychologytoday.com)
  • When MTV Networks alumni Judy McGrath and Nick Shore formed Astronauts Wanted in 2013, they certainly understood younger audiences. (beet.tv)
  • 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)
  • The two astronauts were deeply involved in the new capsule's development over the past five years. (sltrib.com)
  • The project has been in operation for over four years, and astronauts of captured images of key locations along migratory paths of all seven species being investigated in the study. (slashgear.com)
  • The astronauts accrued 8,232.7 person-years of follow-up and a total estimated equivalent radiation dose of 7,601.8 mSv in that period. (cdc.gov)