Tagged: astronauts

Astronauts who spacewalk outside the space shuttle and International Space Station can work for up to 7 hours in the current space suit, which is also called the Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). The EMU is a marvel of technical achievement with a $12 million price...

ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, veteran NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are expected to catch a ride to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. It’s a huge moment for space exploration and it marks the beginning of commercially operated crewed rocket launches. NASA...

Astronaut cuisine has come light years from the early days of freeze-dried powders and semiliquids packed in ever-so-appetizing aluminum tubes, but there’s still a lot to be desired. The menu might be expanding to include previously taboo bread, thanks to a group called Bake in...

Astronaut cuisine has come light years from the early days of freeze-dried powders and semiliquids packed in ever-so-appetizing aluminum tubes, but there’s still a lot to be desired. The menu might be expanding to include previously taboo bread, thanks to a group called Bake in...

NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (R) and Kjell Lindgren get ready to eat the first food grown and harvested in space on the International Space Station on Aug. 10, 2015. What they’re eating was not made from human waste, but that could change in the future....

NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik makes a spacewalk in November 2009, during the final space shuttle flight to or from the International Space Station. His spacesuit protected him from the UV rays. NASA NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong gazed through overlapping shields. While the Ohio native took...

NASA’s historic Beach House today. It hasn’t changed much since 1963. NASA Astronauts are driven, disciplined, physically fit and trained to solve complex problems in high-stakes situations. That doesn’t make them any less human. Sometimes, they just want to get away from it all —...

The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date has been created by an international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge. It reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid ‘cool’ side....

Astronauts in places with microgravity, like on the ISS, are weightless; they can sleep or rest in any orientation. However, when it’s time for them to sleep, they have to attach themselves so they don’t float around and bump into something. Astronauts Thomas D. Jones...