Blue Origin plans an all-female space flight—but astronaut memoirs reveal the cost of being exceptional
For the first time since Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova's solo flight in 1963, a spacecraft will enter orbit with ...
Astronauts who were stuck in space, Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, say they'd fly on Boeing's Starliner again
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after ...
The Story Behind the Most Terrifying Space Photo Ever Taken
For a brief period in the 1980s, astronauts went untethered outside their space capsule, flying with jet packs. The photos ...
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I Used to Work at NASA. I Have Some Insights About Sex in Space.
When the Space Shuttle program was active ... As of March 21, the Expedition 73 crew consists of three NASA astronauts: Anne McClain, Jonny Kim, and Nichole Ayers; three Russian cosmonauts ...
Astronaut was stranded in space for 311 days after his country stopped existing while he was in orbit
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent twice as much time in space than his team had planned after his country stopped ...
What happens if someone dies in space?
Here is how death in space would be handled today: If someone died on a low-Earth-orbit mission – such as aboard the International Space Station – the crew could return the body to Earth in a capsule ...
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NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to reflect on their time in space in a media conference
While other astronauts had longer spaceflights over the decades, none had to deal with so much uncertainty or see the length ...
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Astronauts who were stuck in space say they'd fly on Boeing's spacecraft again
Why were the astronauts stuck in space so long? Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to ...