The history of human space missions spans over 50 years. In that time people have learnt to live and work in space, constantly develop new technologies and make innovations an indelible part of daily life. By its very nature, human astronautics ...
... aspergilli. During the fifth main expedition to the Salyut 7 orbital station, a message was received from the cosmonauts about the discovery of visible mould in the interior, joints and cables of a work module. Again, samples were...
... C. Lee and N. Jan Davis were the first married couple in space in 1992. Some experts believe the co-ed cosmonauts on Mir may claim the title to ‘first sex in space’ as well. Some will go to see their home planet...
... Station. We will be making art with paediatric and young adult cancer patients, and with astronauts and cosmonauts in Cologne, Moscow, Tokyo, and Montreal, as well as with our patients and NASA astronauts. ILC Dover has...
Rpace food might conjure thoughts of the fruit-flavoured Tang drink, astronaut ice cream or space food sticks, but none of these products have the strong connection to space that one might imagine. Tang wasn’t developed for space, merely used during...
... been a part of human spaceflight. Other art forms occurred more rarely during the early missions - like cosmonaut Alexey Leonov’s coloured pencil sketches of orbital sunrise and charcoal portraits of his Apollo/Soyuz crewmates – although...