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NASA and SpaceX have named the four astronauts for the Crew-13 mission, targeted to launch in September to the International Space Station.
In their first press conference since returning from space, the four-person crew described feeling small but united with people on Earth and said the mission was an achievement by all of humanity
In a video shared by NASA, Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen are seen watching a ball of water floating around in zero-gravity. The water itself is moving around and shaping the light around it in some surprisingly complex ways.
The mission is the 13th collaboration between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX under the Commercial Crew Program.
Paul Reichert and Katrina Willoughby are both flight operations imagery instructors at NASA. They trained the four Artemis II astronauts and both graduated in the early 2000s at what used to be the "Imaging and Photographic Technology Program" at RIT.
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The world record was broken on Monday, April 6 between the Artemis II crew and the CNSA (China National Space Administration) Tiangong space station in Low Earth Orbit
More than 100 former NASA astronauts are launching Astronauts For America, a nonpartisan nonprofit advocating for constitutional limits and civic responsibility.
An astronaut can hold a tool in space, loosen their fingers, and watch it stay put. Nothing drops. Nothing tugs downward. Yet the brain does not simply forget gravity because the body has left Earth.
Isro has begun preparing to select a second batch of Gaganyaan astronauts, including civilians from Stem fields. We got inside details of how the process will unfold and what all is being done to ready the pool.