NASA astronaut reveals they nearly failed to dock Boeing Starliner to International Space Station
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore revealed that the Boeing Starliner almost had to abort its attempt to dock to the International ...
Astronauts share terrifying secret about being almost lost in space
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams have revealed harrowing details of how their capsule narrowly avoided catastrophe as it ...
Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
As it flew up toward the International Space Station last summer, the Starliner spacecraft lost four thrusters. A NASA ...
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The X-15 was a Starfighter in All But Name
The North American X-15 is one of the most groundbreaking aircraft ever created in the history of aviation and space ...
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Lost in space, found again: The nine-month odyssey of two astronauts
The view from space is humbling. From the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), astronauts see Earth as a fragile blue sphere, a world of storms and stillness, movement and mystery. It is a view ...
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Stuck in space for over nine months; What did Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore eat at ISS?
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after spending over nine months in space due to an extended mission. They survived on a diet including precooked meals and ...
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Futuristic, 'alien-like' nuclear fusion rockets developed in total secret could revolutionize space travel — if they actually work
U.K. start-up Pulsar Fusion has unveiled plans to build a fleet of reusable nuclear fusion-powered rockets, known as Sunbirds, that could cut journey times across the solar system in half.
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Laws in space that NASA had to follow while astronauts were stranded there for nine months
Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stuck in space for 286 days, in that time NASA and SpaceX had to figure out their return As Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams floated around the International ...
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Nine months in space has taken its toll
Some onlookers claimed before and after photographs of Wilmore and Williams appeared to show them as gaunt and having perhaps lost weight while up in space. Williams couldn't walk when she came out of ...
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This is what being in space does to your body
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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What Happens If You Shoot a Gun in Space?
Space programs have spent decades figuring out how terrestrial activities would work outside of Earth’s atmosphere. Will plants grow? Do muscles atrophy? Will astronauts ever be able to do laundry?
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Two astronauts stuck in space for 9 months have returned to Earth
Now they’ll undergo a battery of tests to find out how the longer-than-expected space stay has impacted their health. The pair left on June 5 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission to ...