No one saw Earth's poles from space in the more than 400 human spaceflight missions preceding Fram2. The closest any crew mission has gotten to the poles was the Soviet Union's Vostok 6 mission in 1963, when Valentina Tereshkova's spacecraft reached a latitude of 65.1 degrees.
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Astronauts Are Going To Attempt To Grow Mushrooms In Space, As It Could Be A Sustainable Food Source"Oyster mushrooms are the perfect space crop, helping astronauts meet their nutritional needs on long-duration space missions like those to Mars, while closing the loop in plant a
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who were stuck in space for more than nine months, took questions after returning to Earth.
Needham native and astronaut Sunita Williams, along with fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore, spoke Monday for the first time since their return to Earth from the International Space Station.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams indicated they’d be willing to travel on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft again in the future. They both clocked 286 days in space.
Astronaut Mae Jemison is giving advice to Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King ahead of their upcoming mission to space ... and she tells us the final frontier is going to flip their world upside down.
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American astronaut Sunita Williams, who recently returned to the Earth after spending more than nine months in space, revealed her plans for retirement. Read more at Republicworld.com
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke in their first news conference since returning to Earth two weeks ago from an unexpectedly long I.S.S. stay that lasted more than nine months.
Artemis III in 2027 will bring astronauts onto the moon, this time not in the Sea of Tranquility, the site near the moon’s equator where Apollo 11 landed, but on the South Pole, where Douglas said sunlight will be constant. “It’s a new challenge,” the astronaut said with another big grin.
Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams plans to visit India soon after her 286-day-long mission at the ISS. She described India's beauty from space and expressed excitement about Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's upcoming mission.
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