March 2022
What space taught me about water
...space is to recycle water from every available source, including crew members’ own urine and sweat. Nicole Stott with the... predict it and protect it as it cycles around our world.” Crew members aboard the ISS share a ‘toast’ of purified recycled water...
21 August 2020
A small air leak has been found on the International Space Station, says NASA
... the source,” and stressed that the leak is still within segment specifications. It presents no immediate danger to the crew or the space station, NASA added. The atmosphere in the off-word laboratory is normally maintained at a pressure comfortable...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
... survive a small hull breach. November’s free-flight test crew team photo. Our return mission scenario is very flexible: ...assumed responsibility for managing the Dream Chaser cargo and crew systems development, leading the programme through the design...
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...
