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...
26 February 2018
Spaceman: an astronaut’s unlikely journey to unlock the secrets of the universe
... 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...
17 November 2020
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the ISS
... 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...
