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...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
... of Apollo. I grew up at a time when spaceflight was all about astronauts and the Moon. I ate, slept and breathed Apollo, and watched in ... coffee table. Instead I was fascinated by where the astronauts were going and what they might do there. My ...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
...minerals from the lunar surface. The ideal balance between astronaut and robotic contributions in this activity has yet to...The protective spacesuits and life support systems of Apollo allowed astronauts such as Jack Schmidt to work for more than seven...
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....
