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 […]
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
图片来源：NASA 当SpaceX发射载有四名宇航员的灵感4（Inspiration4）任务时，这将是该公司首次完全由私人发射宇航员进入轨道。虽然不是NASA的任务，但这次飞行体现了该机构的愿景和努力，以促进强大的太空经济，私营公司为提供载人和货物的太空商业运输，并在太空中创造未来的商业目的地。 “NASA的努力和投资，特别是商业宇航员计划，使这项活动能够在近地轨道上进行。”NASA局长比尔·纳尔逊说。“NASA的目标是成为商业太空市场的众多客户之一，我们很高兴这次载人任务表明了人们对商业太空服务日益增长的兴趣。对于载人航天来说，这是不可思议的一年，而这仅仅是个开始!” 这次发射由载人龙飞船和
In this image, NASA astronaut and SpaceX Crew-3 Commander Raja Chari trains aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft in Hawthorne, California. Chari was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class and reported for duty in August 2017. The Iowa native graduated from the U.S. Air Force
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. Th
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-O
An army marches on its stomach, the saying goes, and astronauts fly on theirs. The success of any mission relies on plentiful, nutritious, and enjoyable food. A growing body of research on the space station looks at ways to improve the food supply as missions increase in length. Station crew members
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket with NASA’s Starliner spacecraft aboard is illuminated by spotlights on Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, as it sits on the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 ahead of the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Boeing’s Orbital
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
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
