Modern spacesuits have a compatability problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it: Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the Nasa astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have finally returned to Earth. Spacesuits were an important consideration that Nasa had to factor into its plans to bring the astronauts back …
Astronauts are returning to the Moon, but they won’t be repeating the Apollo missions: From left to right: Christina Koch, Reid Wiseman (seated), Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen make up the Artemis II crew. Nasa If all goes to plan, sometime in November 2024, NASA’s newly announced Artemis II crew – Christina Koch, Victor Glover, …
Ghana needs more astronomers, astrophysicists, aerospace engineers and astronauts — how to develop them: A satellite image of Lake Bosumtwi. It filled a meteorite impact crater. USGS/ NASA Landsat/Orbital Horizon/Gallo Images/Getty Images Perhaps when you think of scientific research in Africa you think of the continent’s amazing natural resources, buried out of sight under soil …
Artemis: why it may be the last mission for Nasa astronauts: A camera mounted on the tip of one of the Orion capsule’s solar array wings captured this footage of the spacecraft and the Moon NASA Neil Armstrong took his historic “one small step” on the Moon in 1969. And just three years later, the …
Tiangong: astronauts are working on China’s new space station – here’s what to expect: Chinese astronauts Tang Hongbo, Nie Haisheng, and Liu Boming during ceremony before heading to Tiangong. ROMAN PILIPEY/EPA Three astronauts on China’s new space station have just performed the country’s first space walk and are busy configuring the module for future crews. …
Astronauts on Mars missions could suffer cognitive and emotional problems – new research: The brain is deeply affected by the change of gravity. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Human space missions to Mars are the next great leap in space exploration, with Nasa targeting the 2030s as a reasonable time frame for taking the first humans there. But boarding …
Europe is recruiting astronauts: here’s what it takes to become one: Future astronauts will visit Mars. Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski For the first time in 11 years, the European Space Agency (Esa) is recruiting new astronauts. Applications will open on the 31 March 2021 for eight weeks, followed by a six-stage selection process to identify the next …
Astronauts are experts in isolation, here’s what they can teach us : Earth from the ISS. NASA, CC BY Being forced into isolation and confinement creates a number of potentially stressful demands. However, we might be able to learn a thing or two about coping with these demands, from people who choose a life in such settings. …
Back pain: four ways to fix bad lockdown posture – by copying astronauts: The advice we give to astronauts can be helpful to people working from home. NASA Johnson/flickr, CC BY-NC Lockdown could be bad for you back. Thanks to measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, many of us are now working from home. This …
Not one, but two robot astronauts straight out of sci-fi are headed to Boston … R5 (also known as Valkyrie, which isn't a super reassuring name for a giant space robot if you know anything about Norse mythology) didn't make the cut for the last DARPA challenge. But that's arguably because the robot was built …