christina koch
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You Need to See NASA’s Best Photos of the Year
NASA is a proud boomer that loves posting a good photo album. The space agency released 100 of its best 2023 photos on flickr, which go through the exciting highlights of the previous year. From asteroid samples landing on Earth to selecting the first crew of astronauts to go to the Moon since Apollo, this…
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The Soaring Highs and Stark Lows of Spaceflight in 2023
It’s time to look back at spaceflight in 2023, a real “two steps forward, one step back” kind of year, filled with highs, lows, and everything in between. The New Space Race is in full swing, and with both public and private entities pushing the limits of what’s possible, failures are an inevitability, as is…
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How to Watch NASA’s Rare All-Woman Spacewalk Live
Two NASA astronauts are gearing up for their first spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) for maintenance work in low Earth orbit, marking just the second time two women will exit the station together. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin around 8:05 am ET on Wednesday (which is 11:05 pm Wednesday AEDT) and last…
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NASA: All-Women Space Walk Is ‘Inevitable,’ But Sorry, Not The Right Spacesuits This Time
Astronauts on the International Space Station have completed 214 spacewalks in the past 21 years, but none have been all-women endeavours. So it was very exciting earlier this month when NASA publicized what was supposed to be the first all-female spacewalk in history. But just days before the planned walk, a spacesuit sizing problem means…