astronaut
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NASA Says It Accidentally Broadcast an ISS Distress Message
Yesterday, a livestream from the International Space Station (ISS) falsely indicated that an astronaut was experiencing decompression sickness (DCS), a potentially life-threatening condition, ahead of a scheduled spacewalk. NASA broadcast an emergency situation on board the ISS on Wednesday at 6:32 p.m., with a voice from ground control asking to put an unnamed “commander” in…
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You Can Now Play as an Astronaut on the Moon in Fortnite
In Lunar Horizons, your mission is to find and collect resources to build a habitat on the south pole.
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Russian Cosmonaut Sets New Time Travel Record After Spending 879 Days in Orbit
As of Sunday, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has clocked more time in Earth orbit than any other astronaut, surpassing the mark held by his Russian colleague Gennady Padalka. And as a fun quirk introduced by Einstein’s Special and General Theories of Relativity, Kononenko has travelled farther into the future than anyone else—even if by the…
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Latest Private Mission to ISS Is Set for Launch. Here’s What You Should Know
The third private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is getting ready to launch an all-European crew, along with dozens of scientific experiments, to low Earth orbit. Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3) is scheduled for liftoff on Thursday, January 18 at 8:49 p.m. AEDT from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch…