06 February 2020
Record-setting astronaut Christina Koch and crewmates return from ISS
... MS-13 spacecraft with Koch, Skvortsov, and Parmitano aboard, Expedition 62 officially began aboard the station, with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Morgan as flight engineers and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos as station commander. They will remain...
17 February 2021
ESA is looking for new European astronauts
.... After that, the six-stage selection process will start. This is expected to be completed in October 2022. "Becoming an astronaut has been a dream come true. It brings together many of my passions: science and technology, complex machines, demanding...
19 February 2021
China's astronauts begin training for space station missions
...during the operational phase are expected to involve three astronauts and consist of six-month-long rotations. The ...will be central to the space station's operations, given that astronauts will live there and control the entire station from inside....
16 April 2024
The End Of Astronauts Why Robots are the Future of Exploration
... on the tin’ books. The title suggests astronauts are surplus to requirements; the subtitle substitutes robotic... explore”, they maintain that the broadly-accepted mantra that astronauts “perform a valuable inspirational role” remains an “open question...
November 2017
Radiation protection for space colonists and travellers
... are severely damaged we can no longer repair radiation injury Space agencies take measures to limit the time astronauts spend exposed to radiation, such as scheduling spacewalks so that they do not occur during times of intense solar activity...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... the historical precedent, this seems unlikely. Boeing cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space...
