who ended a more than 5-month mission to the ISS after their September 2024 launch. SpaceX's recovery ship Meghan is nearby and will dispatch fast boats to secure the Dragon in order to recover the crew within an hour after splashdown. ...
Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cristina Costantini’s Sally captures the life of Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space, and the struggles she endured both in public and private. Now set for a June 16 ...
"Well, prior to opening the [hatch] — well, somewhere, I don't know where in the mission, I lost my wedding ring. It came off, and I couldn't find it. Normally I found I could find things after a long period of time — they'd collect on the air filters — but it never sho...
Designed to carry one pilot, the Mercury space craft could be controlled in pitch, roll and yaw by thrusters. The space capsule was truncated cone with sides angled 20° from the longitudinal axis. It was 6 feet, 10 inches (2.083 meters) long and had a maximum diameter of 6 feet, 2.50...
Then South America for 20 minutes, then nothing but the Atlantic Ocean for 10 minutes, and then you’re back over South Africa. All in about an hour and a half. And then you realize we are in a small spaceship circling another spaceship. It’s multinational [up] here too, with differe...
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino knows a thing or two about not giving up. He was a working class boy from Long Island, New York, who suffered from a fear of heights and had difficulty with his eyesight. In fact, it was his impaired vision that led to him being rejected from NASA...
Anyone can hope to be an astronaut, but to be an “astronaut hopeful” one must make a commitment to the goal and proactively work towards becoming an astronaut. The road is long and the outcome is uncertain, but it is in trying to achieve this lofty ambition that we learn to become ...
In these experiments, we evaluated stress response in five young healthy subjects inside an earth-based moon-settlement-like habitat during a 1-week long analog astronaut mission. Wearable devices were used to monitor daily step count of the subjects, physical activity, heart rate during physical ...
Year in Space NASA ISS crew watching "The Martian" Sept 19, 2015, which Kelly loved. Long exposure to a zero-gravity environment can affect the human body in multiple ways. Some physical symptoms can include changes to theeyes,muscle atrophy and bone loss. Human psychology is also an import...
Borman's first spaceflight, which launched three years before Apollo 8, paired him with Lovell, who was also making his first trip into space. The Gemini 7 mission was designed to test and discover the difficulties with keeping a crew in space for as long as the Apollo landing missions were...