China launches more astronauts into space amid lunar mission progress: See the best photos from their blast-off in the Gobi desert.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. >> The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff.
After more than a decade of engineering, a Boeing spacecraft is headed to the International Space Station with two of NASA's most experienced astronauts at the helm.Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will be the first NASA astronauts to crew a Starliner mission. Both astronauts are retired U.S. Navy captains. "I sort of have to pinch myself a little bit to understand we’re going," shared Williams.Boeing came up with the idea for the Starliner in 2012 and got a NASA contract four years later....
Boeing is counting down for its first astronaut launch after years of struggle. Two NASA test pilots will climb aboard Boeing's Starliner capsule at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday night.
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Astronauts used ZBLAN preform, which is a glass alloy compromised of barium, zirconium, lanthanum, aluminum fluorides, and sodium, in their tests. These glass rods are used in runs (called draws) in which they are stretched into incredibly thin fibers.Read Entire Article
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On Monday, renowned astronaut Jose Hernandez played his biography film for thousands of Rio Grande Valley students. The movie “A Million Miles Away” tells the story of his life as a farmworker to a NASA astronaut. The screening was held at the Bert Ogden Arena. Hernandez talked to the students before []
Boeing's Starliner capsule will launch astronauts for the first time today
Drawing inspiration from the traditional "Wall of Death" found in fairgrounds, the proposed lunar version aims to provide an unconventional yet effective exercise regimen for lunar explorers.
Researchers suggest cylinder to prevent astronauts losing muscle mass in low gravity environmentAs humans prepare to return to the moon after an absence of more than half a century, researchers have hit on a radical approach to keeping astronauts fit as they potter around the ball of rock.To prevent lunar explorers from becoming weak and feeble in the low gravity environment, scientists suggest astronauts go for a run. But, this being space, it’s not just any kind of run – researchers have...
It's not just another ride for a pair of veteran NASA astronauts who arrived to the Space Coast ahead of their flight onboard Boeing's CST-100 Starliner.
China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket […]