In 2025 and 2026,NASAis planning for the Artemis II and III missions, where a crew will orbit the Moon and land on its south pole, respectively. These missions are expected to be followed by crewed missions to Mars by the early 2030s. However, astronauts have long complained about a lack...
Scientists from Cornell University are developing a real-world version of the ‘stillsuit’ featured in adaptations of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic Dune, which could be used by future astronauts as they embark on missions to the International Space Stati
NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Mike Barratt will exit the station’s Quest airlock to complete the removal of a faulty electronics box, called a radio frequency group, from a communications antenna on the starboard truss of the space station. The pair also will collect samples for analysis...
Some scientists (most notablyGeoffrey A. Landisof NASA's Glenn Research Center) have suggestedcolonizing Venus by using aerostat habitats and floating cities. In Venus' carbon dioxide atmosphere, a balloon full of a human breathable 21:79 oxygen/nitrogen mix will float. Actually it will have over...
The final experiment leans more towards astronaut footwear on the Crocs-to-NASA spectrum. With a design that seems almost pressurized and made to deal with the effects of outer space, the final shoe below could really be worn with a space-suit. Metal ‘laces’ fix the ...
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In addition to American and Russian flags, NASA's and Roscosmos' insignias appear on their respective garments (the latter a style retired in 2010). The Sokol suit also has a fictionalized version of the emblem representing Zvezda, the Russian company that makes the spacesuits. ...
But they are all very interested in the space program. The producers, the actors, the cast are just great. They really are fun people and very interested in NASA. The times I've been there on the set, they've introduced me to their families, they've brought their kids, their parents...
Bresnik then installed the MISSE 7 space exposure package to a pallet called ExPRESS (for Expedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station, furthering the belief by some that NASA comes up with an acronym first then thinks up a name to fit it!) Finally, the astronauts deployed ...
Ed Buckbee was a close colleague of Wernher von Braun for many years, serving as a NASA Public Affairs Officer at the Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He was personally selected by von Braun to be the first director of the newly established U.S. Space and Rocket Center ...