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...
17 June 2021
China's astronauts arrive at new space station
...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 ...
17 September 2021
Chinese astronauts return to Earth after 90-day mission
... in a statement. "The first manned mission to the (Chinese) space station is a complete success," it said. The taikonauts - as Chinese astronauts are known - will undergo a 14-day quarantine before they can go home "because their immune systems may...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... exploration systems requiring increased autonomy such as medical care and vehicle health management to achieve Mars missions. Astronaut Nicole Stott, Expedition 20/21 flight engineer, working with the Mice Drawer System (MDS) in the Kibo laboratory...
October 2021
A US space strategy for 2050: shaping a domain on the cusp
..., poignantly said: “Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.” Her statement foreshadowed...
