The vision from NASA is for SpaceX's Dragon, Starliner and Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to continue sending astronaut crews to the ISS for the next several years. A selection of NASA astronauts continue to use Soyuz for policy and backup reasons, and Russia has committed to sending crews aloft...
Axiom Space's next astronaut mission will be delayed due to the approval process required for International Space Station crews, according to NASA.
Consequently, ESA is responsible for the Basic Training of its own astronauts and the Advanced and Increment-Specific Training of all ISS crews after Columbus activation on Columbus Systems Operations, Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), and ESA payloads. This paper gives an overview of the ESA ISS...
he became NASA’s 14th chief astronaut in July 2015 where he was responsible for flight assignments, mission preparation, and on‐orbit support of U.S. crews, as well as organizing astronaut office support for future
The crews are trained extensively for both automated and manual docking operations. Soyuz contact and docking capture at the ISS was confirmed at 12:33 p.m. EST, about 10 minutes later than originally planned, while flying about 222 statute miles over India. ...
While astronauts aboard the space station spend most of their time conducting scientific research, as well as planning and performing spacewalks for maintenance and upgrade work, crews also take time out to relax and have a little fun. Gazing out of the station’s seven-window Cupola module at...
The International Space Station (ISS) is being developed not only by the USA, but also by Russia, Canada, Japan, and Europe. Because of the various languages spoken, this multi-national effort complicates the process of forming crews for the ISS. So, I believe a fluency in a foreign ...
give the agency experience in station operations in anticipation of the construction of the modularInternational Space Station(ISS). Beginning in 1998, the shuttle was used extensively to take components of the ISS into orbit for assembly and to ferryastronautcrews and supplies to and from the ...
Kononenko became the 482nd person in space and 473rd to enter orbit on his first launch in 2008, according to the Association of Space Explorers' Registry of Space Travelers. He has flown on five Soyuz and 11 ISS expeditions crews. He performed seven spacewalks, including two with Chub duri...
Like Crew-8's science focus, most of the agency's current human-science research is not only geared toward thriving in LEO, but also toward keeping human crews safe and healthy on exploration missions, Kristin Fabre, deputy chief scientist of NASA's Human Research Program, told Space.com. ...