15 October 2021
China to launch astronauts on longest crewed mission yet
... CAVES (Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behavior and performance Skills). As it sounds, CAVES involves astronauts from around the world staying underground in a Sardinian cave for six days to work on multi-cultural approaches...
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...
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...
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...
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...