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...
18 October 2019
First all-female spacewalk is underway!
... the first all female spacewalk is therefore long overdue. The spacewalk, officially known as an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), should have taken place back in March, but was controversially postponed because there were not enough...
01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
... astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan was the first American woman to conduct an EVA (in 1984), she didn’t get to lay hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle...
16 January 2024
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
... astronauts who conducted the in-orbit maintenance programme. Although Sullivan was the first American woman to conduct an EVA (in 1984), she didn’t get to lay hands on the telescope herself: she was left waiting in the Shuttle...
