NASA ISS flight director Kelly Beck toldSPACE.comFriday that the Atlantis and Expedition 15 crews will spend some of their time transferring items between their two spacecraft as Anderson and Williams swap roles aboard the two vehicles. But the main focus, she added, will be on plans for Sund...
On Monday, construction crews began hoisting the crew access arm into place using a series of cranes and harnesses. This is one of the last major components that needs to be in place, in addition to the emergency egress system, a zip-line-like escape system that would allow astronauts and ...
The SLC-40 pad, newly upgraded to host astronaut launches, now sports a crew access tower and arm, a chute-based pad escape system to whisk crews away in case of danger and should function much like SpaceX's Pad 39A site. It also means more flexibility for SpaceX. "I think operatin...
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 during this latest flight.
Although innovation across the aerospace sector makes these ambitions technologically achievable, the biomedical challenges for crews in these extraplanetary habitats still need to be addressed, as humans did not evolve to survive in such extreme environments. The clinical consequences of this evolutionary ...
The current Expedition 69 crew comprises two separate crews, one of which has been aboard the space station for nearly a year and the other which has been on the station sinceAugust 27. The longest-serving crew, with Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin and Frank ...
Although innovation across the aerospace sector makes these ambitions technologically achievable, the biomedical challenges for crews in these extraplanetary habitats still need to be addressed, as humans did not evolve to survive in such extreme environments. The clinical consequences of this evolutionary ...
In 1977, Haise became the first astronaut to command a Space Shuttle and landedEnterprisesuccessfully three times at California’s Edwards Air Force Base. In 1978, he was assigned to one of the first orbital Space Shuttle crews, STS-2A, which was to re-boost space station Skylab’s deteriora...
"The Crew-6 undock will be five days after this vehicle is there. That's enough time for a good handover between the two crews and such that the Crew-7 guys are ready to rock and roll," Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's ISS Program, said on Monday (Aug. 21) during a press co...
Working alongside Padalka was among the largest benefits for Fincke, who also trained with the cosmonaut for four yearsas the backup crews for both Expeditions 4 and 5 to the space station. “Gennady is an experiencedguy, and he took me under his wing so that next time, I could be the...