人类在太空

The atmospheric glow blankets the Earth’s horizon beneath the stars, as shown in a photo taken while the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan. 如国际空间站在日本东南的太平洋上空261英里处运行时拍摄的照片所示，大气层的光辉覆盖了星空下的地球地平线。 On Tuesday, Sept. 28, three residents of the station will take a short ride aboard a Soyuz MS-18, relocating the spacecraft to prepare for the arrival of the next set of station crew members. 9月28日星期二，空间站的三名居民将乘坐联盟号MS-18进行短暂的飞行，重新安置飞船，为下一批空间站工作人员的到来做准备。 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will undock from the station’s Earth-facing Rassvet module at 8:21 a.m. EDT. They will dock again at the Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module at 9 a.m. This will be the first time a spacecraft has attached to the new Nauka module, which arrived at the station in…

Space Station Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency conducts research using DNA sequencing to help monitor and identify microbes on spacecraft to increase the safety of future human missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. 日本宇宙航空研究开发机构的空间站指挥官星出彰彦（Akihiko Hoshide）利用DNA测序进行研究，以帮助监测和识别航天器上的微生物，以提高未来人类登月、火星等任务的安全性。 Image Credit: NASA 图片来源：美国国家航空航天局

The SpaceX Crew-3 team, consisting of NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, and Tom Marshburn, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer, and support personnel participate in water survival training at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in this image from April 2021. The mission is slated to launch in late 2021. When Barron, Chari, Marshburn, and Maurer arrive at the orbiting laboratory, they will become expedition crew members for the duration of their six-month science mission. The crew will have a slight overlap with the Crew-2 astronauts, who arrived April 24. This will mark the second time commercial crew missions have overlapped on the station. The Crew-1 astronauts, who ended their mission with a splashdown off the coast of Panama City, Florida, on…

On Aug. 17, 2021, Space Station Commander Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency checked the fit of his U.S. spacesuit in preparation for a spacewalk on Aug. 24, during which he and fellow spacewalker Mark Vande Hei will install the International Space Station’s third Roll-Out Solar Array. Image Credit: NASA 2021年8月17日，日本航空航天探索机构的空间站指挥官星出彰彦（Akihiko Hoshide）检查了他的美国宇航服是否合身，为8月24日的太空行走做准备。在此期间，他和同行的太空行走者马克·范德·黑（Mark Vande Hei）将安装国际空间站的第三块推出式太阳能电池板。 图片来源：美国国家航空航天局

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is secured atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 17, 2021. On July 30, Starliner is slated to launch on an Atlas V for Boeing’s second Orbital Flight Test for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Image Credit: United Launch Alliance 2021年7月17日，在佛罗里达州卡纳维拉尔角太空部队基地的41号航天发射复合体的垂直集成设施上，波音公司的CST-100 Starliner航天器被固定在联合发射联盟的宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭上。7月30日，Starliner将搭载宇宙神Ⅴ号运载火箭升空，进行波音公司为NASA的商业宇航员计划进行的第二次轨道飞行测试。 图片来源：联合发射联盟

This uniform in the center of this image belonged to one of the unsung heroes of the Space Shuttle Program – Travis Thompson, former Closeout Crew Lead. The closeout crew was responsible for assisting the astronauts to strap into the shuttle’s crew module and take care of any other last-minute needs that arose. Ultimately, they close and seal the crew access hatch and leave the astronauts behind before they launch into space. On July 9, 2021, Thompson, who served for nearly 100 missions, and Deputy Administrator and former shuttle commander Pamela Melroy met to view his uniform at its exhibit in the National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. Melroy presented him with a plaque for the occasion and surprised…