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...
04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... review preparations and subsequent media briefing. As always, astronaut safety remains the top priority for both NASA and ... firmly on the line - and potentially the lives of two astronauts - NASA and Boeing's careful phrasing of their testing work on...
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...
31 March 2021
Apply now to become an ESA astronaut
...notice for the ‘Parastronaut’ feasibility study to select astronauts living with specific physical disabilities. This project is.... To make this dream a reality, alongside the astronaut recruitment, I am launching the Parastronaut Feasibility Project –...
12 November 2021
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts arrive at ISS
... of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker. “And of course, we are in the process of recruiting a new class of ESA astronauts as we look to the future of exploration beyond low-Earth orbit, to the Moon and eventually Mars. “I’m delighted to see...
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...
