Tag: astronauts
Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan, returning from the International Space Station
The American Loral O’Hara, the Russian Oleg Novitsky and the Belarusian Marina Vasilevskaya after the landing of their ship in Kazakhstan, April 6, 2024. BILL INGALLS / AFP The Russian…
NASA has selected three future lunar vehicles for Artemis astronauts
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist April 4, 2024 at 7:37 p.m. 9 The Moon, we love it, we ride on it © NASA The American agency continues to prepare for its…
astronauts can undergo surgery remotely from Earth
In a revolutionary advance for space surgery, Earth-based surgeons have successfully remotely controlled a robot to perform a surgical simulation aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This feat, marking the…
Apollo 13: this movie star’s mother helped save the astronauts in labor!
Aerospace engineer Judith Love Cohen’s work helped save the Apollo 13 astronauts, a job she did while she was giving birth… to Jack Black! On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13…
The astronauts of the new Axiom mission will take off for the ISS, a record number of Europeans in space?
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist January 18, 2024 at 7:31 p.m. 1 The 4 participants of the first manned flight of 2024. And it is private! © Axiom Space The third…
NASA: the next two Artemis lunar missions with astronauts delayed to 2025 and 2026
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist January 11, 2024 at 7:01 p.m. 4 The 4 members of the Artemis II mission will ultimately have to wait until September 2025. © NASA It…
In the middle of a trip to repair the ISS, two astronauts… lost their toolbox
Marc Zaffagni November 6, 2023 at 8:52 a.m. 13 NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O’Hara (bottom) during their spacewalk on November 1, 2023 © NASA TV During their…
Astronauts are prohibited from taking stamps into space
The crews of the International Space Station (ISS) can stay there with some personal belongings. But, stamps are banned by NASA. Thomas Pesquet explains why in his book. Most astronauts…
The devil wears Prada ? Now astronauts too
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist October 5, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. 1 The ideal setting for a lunar fashion show? © Axiom Space / Prada This is an unprecedented collaboration: the…
356 days! These three astronauts now surpass the record for the longest flight on the ISS
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist September 12, 2023 at 3:30 p.m. 2 These three astronauts have now been in orbit for 356 days! ©NASA The mission of Frank Rubio, Dmitri Petelin…
Future antibacterial suits for European astronauts
In 2019, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the PexTex project aimed at designing the spacesuits of tomorrow, this equipment having not changed much since the 1970s. It has notably…
Discover Argonaut, the future European lunar lander at the service of astronauts
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist July 24, 2023 at 9:40 a.m. 1 The concept of a lander serving a base and survival on the Moon is gaining ground. ESA Credits The…