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Bruce McCandless II free-floating in space more than 320 feet away from the Challenger space shuttle. ... saving an astronaut floating off into space might require several tethers hooked together ...
Astronauts who took longer space trips were associated with greater brain changes. [16] [17] In October 2018, NASA-funded researchers found that lengthy journeys into outer space, including travel to the planet Mars, may substantially damage the gastrointestinal tissues of astronauts.
The truth is, all objects in the Earth orbit, including the International Space Station and astronauts, aren't floating, but constantly falling, and not down but around the Earth. That's right ...
During EVA-23, European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano reported that water was steadily leaking into his helmet. Flight controllers elected to abort the EVA immediately, and Parmitano made his way back to the Quest airlock, followed by fellow astronaut Chris Cassidy. The airlock began repressurizing after a 1-hour and 32 minute spacewalk ...
In September 2016, Tiangong 2 was launched into orbit. It was a space laboratory with more advanced functions and equipment than Tiangong 1. A month later, Shenzhou 11 was launched and docked with Tiangong 2. Two astronauts entered Tiangong 2 and were stationed for about 30 days, verifying the viability of astronauts' medium-term stay in space ...
STORY: NASA Astronauts Bob Hines and Kjell Lindgren opened the hatch to the unmanned capsule at 12:04 p.m. EDT (1604GMT) and floated in, head-first, into the unmanned capsule, where they were ...
Space motion sickness (SMS) is thought to be a subtype of motion sickness that plagues nearly half of all astronauts who venture into space. [44] SMS, along with facial stuffiness from headward shifts of fluids, headaches, and back pain, is part of a broader complex of symptoms that comprise space adaptation syndrome (SAS). [45]
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have been in space weeks longer than expected. Here’s what they’re up to, and how their lives will change since they won’t return on Starliner.