Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast. Returning were NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Russia's Andrei Fedyaev and the United Arab Emirates' Sultan al-Neyadi, thefirst person from the Arab worldto spend ...
In asingle month in space, an astronaut might also lose up to 1.5% of their bone mass – about as much as a postmenopausal woman who is not in treatment loses in about a year. Such loss can make people vulnerable to fractures and lead to premature osteoporosis, but...
it did not play into his and Williams' return, moved up a couple weeks thanks to a change in SpaceX capsules. President Donald Trump and SpaceX's Elon Musk said at the end of January that they wanted to accelerate the astronauts' return, blaming t...
Watching the astronauts splash down to Earth after months on the International Space Station, Dianne Durso said she is feeling relieved that her longtime friend — astronaut Suni Williams — is back safe. “Seeing her wave when she got off the ship was really a good feeling,” Durso told ...
They visited the cleanrooms, where the different modules are integrated, and also met the engineers who designed the spacecraft, starting ten years ago. “Seeing the work that the engineers are putting on every single little surface in that service module,...
The Starliner spacecraft being lowered into place atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket at launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.ULA NASA awarded two Commercial Crew Program contracts in 2014, one to SpaceX valued at $2.6 billion and the other to Boeing for $4....
Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken arrived back on Earth in their SpaceX Dragon capsule named Endeavour. The capsule got into the calm waters about 40 miles off the coast of Pensacola. “It's a little bit hard to take to seeing everybody here considering the things that have gone ...
the complexities of living the days in the strange weightless environment, the challenges of working in space, the emotional effect of seeing earth from space, the drama of the meteoric landing.However, there are also plenty of things that astronauts can’t do because of their weightless environm...
Acaba, wholike Arnold is a former schoolteacher, said the experience of seeing the planetfrom orbit and watching lightning storms while floating in the calm of spacehas given him a new perspective. ?I?lldefinitely be looking at things differently now that we?re back on the ground,?Acaba sai...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station’s two Russian astronauts ventured out on a spacewalk Wednesday to prepare for next year’s arrival of a long-delayed lab.