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...
02 November 2020
ISS marks 20 years of humans on board
..., a record for NASA surpassed only by Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev at 82 hours, 22 minutes during 16 spacewalks. NASA and Russia cooperated on the space station project after the two nations operated orbiting laboratories -- ...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
...addition to orbital science, Matthias is also certified to perform a spacewalk in both the NASA EMU spacesuit and the Russian Orlan spacesuit.... It is expected he will perform a Russian spacewalk to support the installation and first operations of the...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... into orbit on a homegrown rocket and capsule in 2003. Four more human missions followed, achieving China's first spacewalk and then its first in-orbit docking with the nation's own prototype space station module, Tiangong...
July 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... procedures, as they are testing the new activities on the ground. Alexander Gerst, German ESA astronaut, undertakes spacewalk training in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at NASA’s Sonny Carter Training Facility in preparation for his mission to the...
