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 ...
Astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita Williams, two of NASA's most seasoned astronauts with four previous spaceflights, 11 spacewalks and 500 days in orbit between then, landed at the spaceport's 3-mile-long runway in T-38 jet trainers after a flight from the Johnson Space Center in...
“It’s been a roller coaster for them, probably a little bit more so than for us," she said. “We're here. We have a mission. We're just just doing what we do every day, and every day is interesting because we're up in space and it's...
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,...
"A LONG TIME AGO...IN A GALAXY FAR FAR AWAY" 2steve.schonberger I was fooled... as a child In his books, von Däniken promoted the idea that the mysteries of the world can all be explained by space aliens, who inspired the ancients to write strange things in their literature, ...
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.
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...