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...
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 ...
She was responsible for the mission preparation activities and on-orbit support of all ISS crews and their support personnel. Although she enjoyed the job, she wasn't ready to say goodbye to space. "It was actually a very satisfying job, but I did know that I still wanted to fly again ...
if you pick foods that are, you know, either high in iron. Like sources of meat. Or fortified foods like breakfast drinks. And cereals that are fortified with iron. We've seen crews get 30, 40,
The Enterprise crews: from left, Richard Truly, Joe Engle, Fred Haise, and Gordon Fullerton. Photo credit: fredhaise.space In 1977, Haise became the first astronaut to command a Space Shuttle and landed Enterprise successfully three times at California’s Edwards Air Force Base. In 1978, he ...
The first humans flew into space nearly 60 years ago from the deserts of southern Kazakhstan and the Atlantic shores of Florida. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about what it takes to leave the planet.
Ulf Merbold of Germany, and Wubbo Ockels of the Netherlands—ESA’s first three astronauts, selected in the late 1970s to fly on Spacelab missions—were all scientists before signing up for spaceflight. “During the selection process they asked us questions about all different kinds of sciences...
Host:Now, we'll -- we'll start with something happy. Natasha, thanks so much for coming on the show, ran into your profile as part of Peggy's NASA Village Project, you're one of the many people that supported Peggy Whitson, right, during her flight. So how was it -- what was ...
S-IVB Advanced StationAmerican manned space station. Study 1970. Follow-on to Skylab proposed by Douglas. The station would still use the S-IVB stage as the basis, but would be much more extensively outfitted for larger crews. Salyut 1Russian manned space station. Salyut 1 was the first DO...
“I’d like to underline how remarkably well-prepared they are based on their backgrounds as military aviators with many, many years of operational experience,” López-Alegría said during a December news conference. “Very similar to some of the crews that I was able to train with when I ...