July 2019
Developing life support systems for human exploration missions beyond Earth
..., full-size, deep space habitat prototypes. The mockups, constructed by five US companies, offer different perspectives on how astronauts will live and work aboard the Gateway. The explosion of investment in smart control and diagnostic technologies...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...well as numerous defence and planetary science missions. Astronauts flew aboard the Space Shuttle to the International Space... will resume the capability for the US to fly its own astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil and ...
May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
...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 ...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
... 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...
June 2021
How time perception as a spaceflight stress indicator
... 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...
02 April 2026
NASA astronauts launch on lunar flyby mission
...Florida at 6:35 pm. EDT on 1 April, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a planned test flight around ... multi-hour lunar flyby on Monday (6 April 6) the astronauts will take photographs and provide observations of the Moon’s surface...
