... 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...
... 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...
...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 ...
... in a statement. "The first manned mission to the (Chinese) space station is a complete success," it said. The taikonauts - as Chinese astronauts are known - will undergo a 14-day quarantine before they can go home "because their immune systems may...
... exploration systems requiring increased autonomy such as medical care and vehicle health management to achieve Mars missions. Astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer, working with the Mice Drawer System (MDS) in the Kibo laboratory...
..., poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.” Her statement foreshadowed...