The ISS Wonder: How Station’s Life-Support Systems Let Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore Survive 9 Months
Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore are returning to Earth after their extended stay at the International Space Station, but what ...
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
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How Space Permanently Damages Astronauts
While space travel seems like a thrilling endeavor, it does come with its drawbacks, sometimes in the form of permanent ...
SpaceX Dragon successfully splashes down, returning NASA astronauts back to Earth
A four-member crew, including NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left the ISS early Tuesday on ...
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Who is Sunita Williams? The astronaut with Indian roots, 500+ days in space, and nine spacewalks
NASA’s stranded astronauts are finally on their way home, bringing an end to a dramatic nine-month ordeal that began with a ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
How do we power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution, developed in the '60s, can last ...
Hidden cosmic fuel tank found in infant galaxy cluster
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), along with complementary data from the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), have discovered a surprisingly large reservoir ...