--Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes

Two NASA astronauts have completed a spacewalk, stepping outside the International Space Station( ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93.It is the first all-female spacewalk since 2023 and just the fifth in NASA's history. The spacewalk began around 8: 40 a.m.ET and lasted about six-and-a-half hours.... Nitrogen can lead to gas bubbles and cause pain, according to NASA. McClain and Ayers were tethered to the spacecraft to prevent them from floating into space.On Wednesday, NASA said

As announced by the then US President Donald Trump in 2019, the US plans on landing on the moon again.... The same year, the Chinese Chang'e 4 spacecraft made the first landing on the far side of the Moon, which started an unofficial race between NASA and China to land on the moon again ever since.“ We have every reason to believe that we have a very aggressive competitor in the Chinese, ” said Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator, in a statement.“ It's the position of NASA and, I believe, the Uni

A SpaceX rocket blasted off Monday night from Florida, the first trip to put humans into an orbit that takes them over both of Earth’s poles.A spacecraft orbiting over the poles can observe the entire planet as it spins underneath.... With many of these satellites already in polar or near-polar orbit, researchers said that a mission sending humans around the poles was not especially remarkable from a scientific perspective. Still, the mission, which SpaceX says will last three to five days, cap

Браузерный симулятор стыковки Crew Dragon с МКС. Источник изображения: habrastorage.

That will be a continuation of a successful effort by the space agency to turn over to the private sector the business of taking people to low-Earth orbit. SpaceX conducted a demonstration mission with two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, a year ago.... That mission, Crew-1, launched in November, and the astronauts are still aboard the station. Now comes the second operational mission, known as Crew-2. When is the launch and how can I watch it?... The launch is scheduled for Frida

Crude oil imports amounted to 120.5 million tonnes between April and September, representing a 4 per cent increase from the 115.9 million tonnes imported during the corresponding period last year, according to a Financial Express report.... Decline in domestic production Data showed that upstream companies produced 14.4 million tonnes of crude oil during April to September, down from 14.7 million tonnes during the same period in the previous fiscal year.... September’s production also experien

MOSCOW--A forthcoming flight to space by a Japanese billionaire will allow the public to have a closer look at life on board the orbiting outpost, the president of Space Adventures, a company that organized the flight, said Friday. Yusaku Maezawa is set to rocket to space on Dec.... 8 on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with producer Yozo Hirano, who will film his mission, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. Tom Shelley, the president of Space Adventures, said Maezawa compiled a list o

” said Robert Ferl of the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.... Ferl and his colleagues planted thale cress in moon soil returned by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and other moonwalkers.... Most of the moon plants ended up stunted. Advertisement Results were published Thursday in Communications Biology....

Instead, astronauts will strap in for the second Artemis flight, flying beyond the moon but not landing in 2024, a year later than planned.... Nelson said he updated her on the latest schedule and costs during their visit to Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday. ———The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education.... The AP is solely responsible for all content....