December 2014
Ready for Mars? From Mars-500 to zero-gravity medical issues
..., stress and personal issues will always throw up odd situations, confounding astronaut selection psychological testing. ISS Expedition 37 crew portrait inside the Kibo laboratory. The extreme isolation of deep space adds further stress on mental...
September 2023
The Institute of Biomedical Problems - Sixty years of contributing to the development of space biomedicine
... focused on medical and biological research related to the practical exploration of near-Earth orbits by cosmonauts, as well as human expeditions to the Moon, Mars and other Solar System bodies. Extreme environments Major efforts are being undertaken...
07 July 2016
Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launched successfully from Baikonur
... stores various data. The crew will be welcomed by Expedition 48 commander Jeffrey Williams, Soyuz TMA-20M commander Alexey ...Oleg Skripochka, who have been on the ISS since March. Expedition 47 (Timothy Kopra, Yuri Malenchenko and Timothy Peake) left ...
01 April 2020
JAXA and NASA astronauts announced for first operational Crew Dragon flight
... 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...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
... 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...
December 2014
Terraforming Mars: from CFCs to Total Recall
... 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...
