... and Victor Glover Jr., as well as Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), for a six-month expedition aboard the unique space laboratory. This mission will be the first in a series of regular, rotational flights to the...
... aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2012 for a 124-day visit to the station. Pesquet previously flew as part of Expeditions 50 and 51, launching aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and spending 196 days in space. NASA’s Commercial Crew Program...
... much of their time underground to avoid overexposure. This nevertheless seems feasible, and it might be a way for scientific expeditions to remain on Mars for long time periods and to thoroughly explore its surface. Thus, I’m confident that there...
...-term and long-range missions remains some way off. Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko (left) and Science Officer ... feasible the further a mission travels from Earth. If long-term expeditions are to become a reality, requiring up to five years of...
...’t preclude her from a further Space Shuttle mission (STS-93) and a stint on the International Space Station during Expeditions 26 and 27. She is pictured in the Cupola of the ISS in April 2011. A request from a member of Congress is a serious matter...
... missions of 1000 days and more. The expedition begins with the prepositioning of mission elements that...with the elements pre-placed via SEP to form a unique expedition-class planetary science vehicle capable of supporting human exploration sorties to...