January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
... 2013/14), he acted as spacecraft commander and/or expedition commander, as well as performing six extravehicular activities (EVAs). He carried out examinations of respiratory and cardiovascular system status, and monitored psychophysiological state...
07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
... a wonderful thing for astronauts and cosmonauts. We have many visiting vehicles that are arriving, we made do some EVAs and we have a huge research complement of some incredibly interesting experiments on board station. There’s often a distinction...
28 December 2020
First piece of the Chinese Space Station is set to launch in 2021
... Taikonauts, and could mark the first time a Chinese woman commands a space mission or performs an extravehicular activity (EVA). After launching the core module next year, Jianping said China will launch the Tianzhou-2 cargo...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
.... After simulating volcanic degassing, atmospheric escape, and crustal hydration on Mars, a team headed by Caltech PhD candidate Eva Scheller, say that the loss of water solely through the atmosphere cannot explain both the observed...
16 July 2021
NASA's $25 billion FY2022 funding bill is approved
... could go in the jobs bill for the Artemis [space]suits that we’ve got to continue to develop. That’s the EVA suits. And … about $585 million on the Moon to Mars thermal nuclear propulsion”, Nelson said at the meeting...
01 October 2019
Returning People to the Moon after Apollo
... down the waves of pressure pockets”. It also has a human touch, such as his description of donning the awkward EVA suits: “Aldrin had to talk Armstrong through like a blind man – ‘put your left foot to the right...
