SpaceX has been launching astronauts to theInternational Space Station(ISS) for NASA and returning them to Earth since 2020. The company's current astronaut mission for NASA, Crew-9, launched on Sept. 28 and will soon be relieved by the arrival of Crew-10. Crew-10 launched on a SpaceX ...
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 ...
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 ...
With the retirement of NASA's space shuttle fleet this year, theAmerican astronaut corps has steadily been decreasingin size as U.S. spaceflyers retired or quit their posts. But NASA still needs astronauts to fly missions to the International Space Station (ISS), which is slated to run throu...
Ballistic descents have occurred three times during the space station program, subjecting crews to higher G-loads than normal. But the spacecraft is designed for such descents and the crews were not injured. Thursday's launching appeared normal in its early stages as the rocket climbed away,...
Is the station what you expected it would be by now? I expectedthat by 2006 it would be farther along, I thought it would be fully crewed bynow with crews of six, and that all the labs would be up there, and of courseso did NASA. And, of course, the Columbia accident kicked the...
At Home in Space (Johnson, University of British Columbia)– Canada's first psychosocial experiment on board the ISS: It examines how multinational crews of astronauts adapt to living together in space during long-duration missions. Bio-Analyzer (Ian D'Souza, Honeywell/Com Dev)– New Canadian ...
In 2000, the first crews took up residence on the International Space Station (ISS), marking the beginning of what many hope will be a permanent human presence off the planet. One of the novel aspects of the ISS was the inclusion of resistance exercise equipment. Details of these efforts wi...
In 2000, the first crews took up residence on the International Space Station (ISS), marking the beginning of what many hope will be a permanent human presence off the planet. One of the novel aspects of the ISS was the inclusion of resistance exercise equipment. Details of these efforts wi...