In this illustration, a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking. Credit: NASA/SpaceX NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
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To survive on MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent in…
Astronauts Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer are pictured replacing an external high-definition camera during a 6-hour 54-minute spacewalk today. Credit: NASA TV Expedition 66 Flight…
Spacewalkers Raja Chari and Matthias Maurer will exit the station for a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
This lettuce produces a bone-stimulating hormone that could help stave off bone loss in space and on Earth. Credit: Kevin Yates NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts participate in a training session at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. From left to right: NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-4 mission…
Astronaut Tom Marshburn of NASA (center) assists NASA astronaut Raja Chari (from left) and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer during their U.S. spacesuit fit check. Credit:…
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei squeezes in time to unwind with a book. Vande Hei made it into record books…
NASA astronaut Kayla Barron is pictured during spacewalk training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston, Texas. Credit: NASA/Robert Markowitz Two Expedition 66 astronauts are…
Astronaut Kayla Barron points the camera at herself for an out-of-this-world “space-selfie” during a spacewalk that took place on December 2, 2021. Credit: NASA The…
The Canadarm2 robotic arm is pictured extending from the space station as it orbited above Ireland and the United Kingdom. Credit: NASA The Expedition 66…
The official crew portrait of the SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts representing NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. From left are, Pilot Robert Hines, Mission Specialists Samantha Cristoforetti and…
A snap of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during the second spacewalk to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system, taken by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough.…
Astronaut Kayla Barron poses for a portrait in front of the Advanced Plant Habitat inside the space station’s Kibo laboratory module. Credit: NASA The seven-member…
Astronaut Mark Vande Hei harvests plants and collects samples to analyze later for a space agriculture study. Credit: NASA Friday’s research schedule aboard the International…
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel is pictured tethered to the International Space Station just outside of the Quest airlock during a spacewalk he conducted with fellow…
Astronauts Kayla Barron and Raja Chari harvest cotton cell samples to explore the genetic architecture of plant regeneration in microgravity. Credit: NASA A U.S. cargo…
A new study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits is the first to analyze the structural connectivity changes that happen in the brain after long-duration…
Cygnus space freighter. Credit: NASA A U.S. resupply ship is poised to blast off Saturday morning on a day-and-a-half-long journey to replenish the International Space…
The Cygnus space freighter is pictured launching atop the Antares rocket from Virgina to the space station in April of 2019. Credit: NASA A U.S.…