US astronaut Christina Koch is set to return to Earth Thursday having shattered the spaceflight record for female astronauts by spending almost a year aboard the International Space Station. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-record-breaking-astronaut-earth.html…
Tag: Spaceflight
US astronaut returns to Earth after longest mission by woman
NASA’s Christina Koch returned to Earth safely on Thursday after shattering the spaceflight record for female astronauts with a stay of almost 11 months aboard the International Space Station. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-02-record-breaking-astronaut-earth.html…
Astronaut craves salsa and surf after record 11 months aloft
After nearly 11 months in orbit, the astronaut holding the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman can’t wait to dig into some salsa and chips, and swim and surf in the Gulf of Mexico. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-astronaut-craves-salsa-surf-months.html…
First Space-Baked Cookies Took 2 Hours In Experimental Oven
pgmrdlm shares a report from ABC News: The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station. It takes far less time on Earth, under 20 minutes. And how do they taste? No one…
After Mishap with Boeing Spacecraft, NASA Faces a Dilemma
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: As it probes why Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft suffered a serious setback during a flight test last month that forced the cancellation of its planned docking with the International Space Station, NASA faces a high-stakes dilemma: Should the space agency require the company to repeat the uncrewed test flight, or allow the next flight to…
Eyeing Moon, NASA hosts first public astronaut graduation ceremony
NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America’s return to the Moon and eventual journey to Mars. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-eyeing-moon-nasa-hosts-astronaut.html…
NASA’s latest astronaut graduates almost half women
NASA on Friday honored its latest class of graduating astronauts in a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America’s return to the Moon and eventual journey to Mars. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-01-nasa-latest-astronaut-women.html…
First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above earth
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper describing a previously unrecognized risk of spaceflight discovered during a study of astronauts involved in long-duration missions. The paper details a case of stagnant blood flow resulting in a clot in the…
US astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman
A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-12-astronaut-longest-spaceflight-woman.html…
The Greatest Spaceflight Moments of 2019
Three lunar missions, commercial spaceflight milestones, the first all-woman spacewalk — 2019 was a busy year in space for public and private entities alike. Source: https://www.livescience.com/spaceflight-moments-2019.html