A flight attendant will be the 1st Belarusian woman in space on an ISS-bound Soyuz launch
by For the first time, a spacecraft has taken off with a flight attendant on board, but there will be no drink service during the flight. …
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Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose handshake helped melt Soviet Cold War – memoir
Thomas Stafford, right, shaking hands with Alexei Leonov in the Apollo-Soyuz docking tunnel on 17 July 1975 – AFP General Thomas Stafford, who has died …
VR could help astronauts avoid seasickness during splashdown and recovery
Last month, the remaining four lunar astronauts practiced ocean recovery after a long mission. In the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, the …
NASA wants to fly another 1-year astronaut mission. But when will it happen?
NASA wants to run more astronaut missions year-round, but it’s unclear when the agency will be able to do that. NASA’s Frank Rubio recently became …