February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... stay, there were three EVAs (extra-vehicular activity) or spacewalks, so my colleagues Butch and Terry got to go outside three... hours to do what we would do in space during a spacewalk. The Expedition 42 crew highlights its link to the ‘Hitchhiker’s...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... Kennedy’s objective. Thus Gemini was designed to prepare for Apollo: docking two spacecraft, long duration spaceflight, spacewalks and rendezvousing in space. Unmanned probes to the Moon tested the consistency of its surface and produced detailed...
June 2021
Autonomous robots in space
... to learn the route he might take outside the Space Station on a spacewalk, helping him to take decisions and act more quickly during the actual spacewalk. As more actual faults are introduced, the ML software will become increasingly...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... window to enable a return journey. This means we’re looking at 18 months to three years of exposure to the deep space environment. A spacewalk can be fun, as this image of NASA’s Jessica Meir shows, but astronauts who spend six months in space...
15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... newcomer Ye Guangfu. Zhigang, 55, is a former People's Liberation Army (PLA) fighter pilot who in 2008 performed the first spacewalk by a Chinese astronaut. Yaping, 41, will become the first woman astronaut to visit the nation's space station. She...
29 July 2020
NASA announces astronauts to fly on SpaceX Crew-2 mission to ISS
...spent a total of 189 days in space, and performed six spacewalks. Kimbrough also is a retired U.S. Army colonel and earned a... the telescope and moving crew members during the five spacewalks needed to repair and upgrade it. She holds a bachelor...
