May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... conducted onboard the ISS to understand the effects of microgravity, such as flame formation, bacteria/plant growth and astronaut biology, while cargo transfer to the ISS can be performed easily with existing launch vehicles. However, a major...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... run too fast, and it can be difficult for cosmonauts and astronauts to keep up with the schedule. This may be due not only...missions range from the critical to the mundane. Here, astronaut Kjell Lindgren gives cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko a haircut - ISS...
26 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... experiences. He takes us on a very personal journey from his impressions of the first Moon landing, through his career as an astronaut, to the time of his inevitable ‘grounding’. After his last flight, he had a chance to go back for a long-duration...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
...their craft docked at the Tiangong station around seven hours later. The astronauts Nie Haisheng, 56, Liu Boming, 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, .... At a ceremony before blast-off, the three astronauts, already wearing their space suits, greeted a crowd ...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...’s rendering of Dream Chaser atop a ULA Atlas V rocket on Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Astronautics It’s also different because we actually own this vehicle. SNC has invested heavily in Dream Chaser and, in return...
