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Time can appear to move faster or slower to us relative to others in a different part of space-time. That means astronauts on the International Space Station age slower than people on Earth.
If the samples age more quickly in space, scientists will learn more about the process far faster than they would if studying samples on Earth. It is hoped that will lead to new treatments for age ...
Research into how people can live longer and healthier lives as they age is becoming more important in the U.S., which is expected to see its population of people 85 and older triple by 2060.
Pesquet is the youngest member of the European Astronaut Corps, and the last of the ESA astronaut class of 2009 to arrive in space. On 10 June 2014, NASA announced that Pesquet would serve as an aquanaut aboard the Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 18 undersea exploration mission, which began on 21 July 2014 and lasted nine days.
Victor Jerome Glover (born April 30, 1976) is a NASA astronaut of the class of 2013 [1] [2] and pilot on the first operational flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon to the International Space Station. Glover is a captain and F/A-18 pilot in the U.S. Navy and is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School . [ 3 ]
The first space rendezvous was accomplished by Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 in 1965.. Records and firsts in spaceflight are broadly divided into crewed and uncrewed categories. Records involving animal spaceflight have also been noted in earlier experimental flights, typically to establish the feasibility of sending humans to outer space.
The 15-foot diameter capsule is only the sixth spacecraft that NASA astronauts have ridden in since the dawn of the Space Age, the first being the Project Mercury capsule and the most recent being ...
Before they go to the International Space Station, NASA astronauts head the other direction -- to the bottom of the ocean. They dive down to Aquarius the world's only undersea