04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... review preparations and subsequent media briefing. As always, astronaut safety remains the top priority for both NASA and ... firmly on the line - and potentially the lives of two astronauts - NASA and Boeing's careful phrasing of their testing work on...
31 July 2025
Space Station Crew-11 astronauts set for launch
... is positive. This past Saturday a little after 1pm the four Crew-11 crewmembers, NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov arrived in Florida on a NASA Gulfstream jet...
31 March 2021
Apply now to become an ESA astronaut
...notice for the ‘Parastronaut’ feasibility study to select astronauts living with specific physical disabilities. This project is.... To make this dream a reality, alongside the astronaut recruitment, I am launching the Parastronaut Feasibility Project –...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker. “And of course, we are in the process of recruiting a new class of ESA astronauts as we look to the future of exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, to the Moon and eventually Mars. “I’m delighted to see...
March 2017
Growing plastic-producing bacteria in space
...survive for several years without nutrients. This means that astronauts would have the possibility to store a variety of ...More than just biology On a mission to Mars, astronauts will experience reduced gravity and their spacecraft drastic external...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Earlier in his career, whilst at the helm of Arianespace, he was the artisan of the technical procedures...
