February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...humidity conditions, as well as ease of meal preparation. Cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky showing a set of Russian foods on the ISS. Expedition 52-53, 2017. These requirements are most fully met by foods stabilised in different ways, the most common being...
January 2021
Medical professionals and long-duration spaceflight
...board Atlantis in September 2000 involved supplying the International Space Station for the first long-term expeditions. Morukov performed the typical activities of all astronauts – unpacking and accommodating payloads, handling cargo vehicle systems...
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...
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...
