A Soyuz spacecraft lift-off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on the way to the ISS. (Photo by NASA / Joel) … [+] Kowski by Getty Images) Getty Images by NASA US astronauts now fly from American soil to the International Space Station (ISS), right? So why is NASA astronaut Russia going to …
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The International Space Station (ISS), in Earth orbit at hundreds of kilometers altitude, is not perfectly airtight. Every day, the cabin loses a minute how much air, carefully controlled so that a viable atmospheric pressure can be maintained, and to identify leaks. Now the last one just happened, just two …
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A Russian cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station has shared video of five ‘objects’ flying over Earth. The objects were tracked down in a video intended to document the aurora seen as the space station flew over Antarctica. But Ivan Vagner, a cosmonaut who arrived at the floating lab in …
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Photo: Twitter / Chris Cassidy Galapagos Islands are a group of volcanic islands that lie in the Pacific Ocean and are part of Ecuador. Trending Desk Last updated: 18:44, 12 August 2020 IST NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy shared the enchanting photos of the Galapagos Islands on his twitter grip. Astronauts …
Read More »The number 4 reactor in ruins at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1987, some 14 months after the disaster. Image: Mark J. Porubcansky (AP) An experiment done aboard the International Space Station demonstrates the potential of a resistant fungus to protect astronauts from cosmic radiation. This mushroom has already …
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