04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
...workload of the orbiting laboratory, giving the station a crew of nine as their mission overlaps with Expedition 71.” ...toward proving the long-delayed spacecraft is safe to fly lengthy crew missions to-and-from the ISS. After recent testing, NASA ...
April 2017
Surviving radiation for space colonisation
...Apollo lunar landing craft were part-shielded to afford some crew protection from radiation. Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard (...Moon in 1971, received the highest exposure of any of the crews due to active solar storms. This energy causes a cascade ...
July 2019
A reluctant American hero
...problems early in the descent, at 1800 m the crew then faced guidance computer programme alarms 1201 and 1202, ... decision by Armstrong that saved the mission and he and fellow crew member Dave Scott’s lives. Always considered as a top-quality ...
July 2020
Pandemic in space – are we ready?
... age groups. Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft landing in Kazakhstan with ISS crew members Jessica Meir and Drew Morgan of NASA, and Oleg Skripochka... Hurley and Bob Behnken familiarise themselves with SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, prior to the Demo-2 flight test. Space...
