He has 165 days of space experience on Expedition 41, which flew to the International Space Station between May and November of 2014. NASA pilot Victor Glover: Glover will be the first Black astronaut to fly around the moon. In his first spaceflight mission, Glover, a Naval aviator, ...
“Though the current EMU is incredible and has been an absolute workhorse for the Shuttle and Space Station Programs, NASA needs a new spacesuit for use on the space station. With a new spacesuit, we can address some of the current obsolescence issues with the EMU and take advantage of all...
The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway is a proposed NASA program that would bring astronauts to the moon to operate a lunar space station.
Five years ago, NASA launched a mission straight out of a sci-fi blockbuster by deploying its robotic system, Astrobees, on the International Space Station (ISS) to assist astronauts with repair and maintenance. Fast forward to today, and space robotics has taken a giant leap forward, becoming...
Three space travelers, including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, are poised to launch Friday, April 9, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station. NASA Television, the agency’s website, and the NASA app will provide comprehensive prelaunch and launch-to-dock...
Postcard Application, or FPCA,” NASA says on its website. “It’s the same form military members and their families fill out while serving outside of the US. By completing it ahead of their launch, space station crew members signal their intent to participate in an election from space....
Deep Space Station 56, or DSS-56, is a powerful 34-meter-wide (112-foot-wide) antenna that was added to the Deep Space Network’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex in Spain in early 2021. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The addition brings new capabilities to the network, which acts a...
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Earth imagesand ways tosearch for NASA images. Generally, each mission and program has a video and image collection on thetopic page. For example, Space Station videos can be found athttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/videos/index.html. Content can also be found on our extensive...
Technically, gravity still exists in space. Astronauts don’t feel its effects, however, because it becomes weaker with distance. The farther one gets from Earth, the more divorced one becomes from its gravitational pull. In the case of the International Space Station—which has entertained many...