How Do Astronauts Shower in Space?
Here on Earth, we tend to take showers for granted. But for astronauts stationed in space, taking a quick rinse—much like cooking, eating, using the toilet, and just about every other mundane, ...
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Graduate Co-op Helps Develop High-Performance Fibers for Astronaut Suits
With an interest in smart textiles, composites, and quantum dots, she’s finishing up her graduate co-op as a process engineering intern at Kordsa, a global composite technologies company, where she is ...
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Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return home next week after 9 months in space
NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore at a press conference from the International Space Station on Sept. 13. (NASA via AP) ...
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NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore says politics aren't why he and his crewmate are still in space nearly 9 months longer than planned
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore said politics aren't the reason he and pilot Suni Williams are still in space nearly nine months after they were expected back on Earth. The two launched on Boeing's ...
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Starliner astronauts to return after Crew-10 launch: What to know about SpaceX mission
An upcoming routine SpaceX mission to send a crew of astronauts to the International ... donning their SpaceX space suits. SpaceX has also conducted a static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket ...
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Watch how astronauts train for the space station’s microgravity
To prepare newbie astronauts for such conditions, NASA, or in this case, the European Space Agency (ESA), takes new astronauts on special flights that are able to imitate — albeit briefly ...
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When are the Starliner astronauts coming home from the ISS? Here's the plan
The two astronauts who in June flew to orbit on the Boeing Starliner's first crewed flight test are poised to at long last return to Earth this month. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore's highly ...
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What Elon Musk’s Suit Says About Trump and Power
When Elon Musk puts on a nice suit, it has a way of looking like a demotion. Elon Musk, wearing a T-shirt and a ball cap, at the White House last month.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times ...
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NASA astronauts on extended stay aboard ISS reflect on missions work, being thrust into political scuffles
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – After a weeklong trip turned into a nine-month stay aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally coming home.
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For NASA astronauts on a 10-day space mission that lasted 9 months, a landing date at last
Two NASA astronauts who launched on a short mission to the International Space Station last year that turned into a 10-month marathon finally know when they'll be coming home. The Boeing Starliner ...
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NASA officials undermine Musk’s claims about “stranded” astronauts
Over the last month there has been something more than a minor kerfuffle in the space industry over the return of two NASA astronauts from ... flying a suit for Butch up, and also making sure ...
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The great astronaut-survival problem
It now issues astronauts with special suits that help them adjust to Earth’s gravity on their return. Other problems are still unsolved. Some astronauts experience vision problems in ...