...the planetary science community. During the Apollo programme, astronauts returned about 381 kg of lunar regolith to Earth ...value and the potential resources that could be used to support astronauts on the surface. Once there is a regular flow of ...
... conducted onboard the ISS to understand the effects of microgravity, such as flame formation, bacteria/plant growth and astronaut biology, while cargo transfer to the ISS can be performed easily with existing launch vehicles. However, a major...
... run too fast, and it can be difficult for cosmonauts and astronauts to keep up with the schedule. This may be due not only...missions range from the critical to the mundane. Here, astronaut Kjell Lindgren gives cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko a haircut - ISS...
... experiences. He takes us on a very personal journey from his impressions of the first Moon landing, through his career as an astronaut, to the time of his inevitable ‘grounding’. After his last flight, he had a chance to go back for a long-duration...
... beginning of a new era in space travel; it also ends the reliance on the US using Russian rockets to get their astronauts into low Earth orbit - an arrangement that has been in place since NASA's Space Shuttle programme ended...
...their craft docked at the Tiangong station around seven hours later. The astronauts Nie Haisheng, 56, Liu Boming, 54, and Tang Hongbo, 45, .... At a ceremony before blast-off, the three astronauts, already wearing their space suits, greeted a crowd ...