04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... review preparations and subsequent media briefing. As always, astronaut safety remains the top priority for both NASA and ... firmly on the line - and potentially the lives of two astronauts - NASA and Boeing's careful phrasing of their testing work on...
31 March 2021
Apply now to become an ESA astronaut
...notice for the ‘Parastronaut’ feasibility study to select astronauts living with specific physical disabilities. This project is.... To make this dream a reality, alongside the astronaut recruitment, I am launching the Parastronaut Feasibility Project –...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker. “And of course, we are in the process of recruiting a new class of ESA astronauts as we look to the future of exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, to the Moon and eventually Mars. “I’m delighted to see...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...outer skin left by the gloved hands of the astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan...: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble deployment in 1990. The...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
...outer skin left by the gloved hands of the astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan...: she was left waiting in the Shuttle airlock in case astronauts were needed to help with the Hubble deployment in 1990. The...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...the planetary science community. During the Apollo programme, astronauts returned about 381 kg of lunar regolith to Earth ...value and the potential resources that could be used to support astronauts on the surface. Once there is a regular flow of ...
