On Tuesday, September 29, the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos) announced that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had found the source of a suspicious leak. The crew of the expedition – NASA astronaut and commander Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Evan Wagner – had been …
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U.S. As humans prepare to return to the moon in this decade, the biggest risk to astronauts in the future is space radiation that can cause lasting health effects ranging from cataracts to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Although Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s proved that it was safe …
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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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Away from the glare of the blinding lights of civilization, an unobstructed view of the night sky makes you feel as if you are standing on the edge of eternity. But there is a place on Earth where the views extend a little more than anywhere else. The researchers have …
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In the dark of the orbital night of July 5, a NASA astronaut floated to a window on the International Space Station, looked down at the extremity of Earth and patiently waited for a cosmic spectacle. As the space station circled the Middle East, the newly discovered comet NEOWISE and …
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