4. Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Russian astronaut, Anton Shkaplerov, on extravehicular activity to continue outfitting the ISS | Credit: NASA Formed:1992 Annual Budget:$1.92 billion Roscosmos is a coordinating hub for all kinds of space activities in Russia. It conducts a variety o...
Sunita Williams: Stuck In Space Only her first name connects her to India, but Sunita Williams, the US-born former Navy officer and astronaut has inspired many back here. This summer, Williams and her colleague Barry Butch Wimore went to the international space station for an eight-day trip...
Urban Artifact’s “World’s Most Expensive Beer” Astronaut Food is Back and We’re All ‘Berry’ Excited (February, 28) – The Northside brewery says the 2024 iteration of Astronaut Food was made with over 1,000 pounds of freeze-dried strawberries — or nearly 10,000 pounds of whole st...
Formerly married to fellow astronaut Bill Fisher, and the mother of two children, in 1984 she became the first mother in space. During her career at NASA, she has been involved with three major programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the Orion...
Turtle Astronaut: A Bizarre But Amusing 24H Deadbeat Watch Since this is an Apple product, of course there will be apps. Lots of them. One of the most popular is sure to be Instagram, already to go-to app for celebs like Katy Perry and Drake to flaunt their new Apple Watches. This ...
When Scott's application to the NASA astronaut training program was turned down, he was naturally upset...as any 6-year-old boy would be. He chose instead to write as much as he possibly could about science, technology and space exploration. He graduated from The University of Coventry and...
Shenzhou 10 is one of Chinese Shenzhou spacecrafts, and it was the fifth manned spacecraft launched on June 11 2013. Its mission was to dock with Tiangong space station and fulfilled several experiments. Nie Haisheng, Zhang Xiaoguang and a female astronaut Wang Yaping were the crew on Shenzhou...