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Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning
As they returned to the airlock, the Earth below started to put on a lightning show, and Ayers took note, mesmerized. A day ...
NASA scientists explain exactly how astronauts sleep with zero gravity in space
Flynn-Evans said that some of the astronauts do actually find the zero gravity ‘comforting’ while they’re sleeping. “In space ...
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Chinese Astronaut Lights Candle With Match On Tiangong Space Station To Demonstrate Flame Behaviour
Chinese astronaut conduct a spherical flame experiment during an orbit to ground space lecture using a match and a candle.
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What It’s Like to Work in Space: Inside an Astronaut’s Routine
Astronauts working on the ISS usually get 8 hours of sleep after a 16-hour work day. They also get a sleep mask and earplugs ...
Who gets to be called an astronaut? Private space travel has reignited debate over use of prestigious title
The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be ...
Trump honors space exploration on National Astronaut Day
President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...
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Meet an astronaut from the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Winston Scott is a veteran astronaut - one of many you can meet and interact with on a visit to Kennedy Space Center Visitor ...
Hit and Miss with Monique Ming Laven: Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger
How do you go to the bathroom in space? How that question led one local woman to the International Space Station. New episode ...
NASA confronts a $1B budget shortfall for space station. Here's what it means for astronauts.
Facing a $1 billion budget shortfall, NASA is dropping the number of astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Could astronauts visit the Hubble Space Telescope again?
NASA hasn't closed the door on the possibility — and the man in line to be the agency's next chief is a champion of the idea.
NASA astronauts step outside space station to perform the 5th all-female spacewalk
Of NASA's 47 active astronauts, 20 are women. And of the seven astronauts currently living at the space station, McClain and ...
From knitting girdles, to outfitting astronauts for space travel
From test pilots like Chuck Yeager to astronauts like Neil Armstrong, David Clark suits have been a constant in American aerospace. The company built Gemini spacesuits, Apollo gear, U-2 spy plane ...