Der japanische Astronaut Koichi Wakata hat seine fotografischen Fähigkeiten unter Beweis gestellt und einige beeindruckende Aufnahmen geteilt, die von der Internationalen Raumstation (ISS) aufgenommen wurden, als sie am Sonntag die Erde umkreiste.
Das beeindruckendste unter seinen neuesten Sets ist dieser Wahnsinn (unten) von Key West an der Westspitze des Archipels der Florida Keys.
Wir sind sicher, Sie werden mir zustimmen, das Bild ist wunderschön und sieht eher wie ein Gemälde als wie ein Foto aus.
Unter anderen Bildern, die Wakata
Orbiting at 250 miles above the Earth, the International Space Station (ISS) has been integral to a bucket load of research over the past 25 years.
Surrounded by a dizzying number of controls and experiments, occupants get some shut eye in sleeping bags attached to walls that couldn’t be further from luxury if you tried.
But compared to the upcoming Lunar Gateway space station, which will orbit the moon when it is built later this decade, the ISS is decidedly
As the outer-space correspondent at The Atlantic, I spend a lot of time looking beyond Earth’s atmosphere. I’ve watched footage of a helicopter flying on Mars. I’ve watched a livestream of NASA smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid on purpose. I’ve seen people blast off on rockets with my own eyes. But I have never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This is an enormous oversight, apparently. The 1968 film is considered one of the greatest in history
When astronaut Eugene Cernan stepped from the moon’s surface into his spacecraft in December 1972, he was aware it was the end of an era. His mission, Apollo 17, was the last of the Apollos.
“Take your final look at the valley of Taurus-Littrow, except from orbit,” Cernan said of the view before the craft lifted off. “We’re on our way, Houston!”
And with that, the last person to walk on the moon returned to Earth. No other boots have
Three Britons – including the world’s first ever ‘parastronaut’ – are among the European Space Agency’s first new cohort of astronauts in almost 15 years.
John McFall, Rosemary Coogan and Meganne Christian have been named in a class of 17 men and women chosen from a whopping 22,523 applicants.
They will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of current British astronaut Tim Peake, who spent six months on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2016.
Mr McFall said he
It has been more than half a century since humans first walked on the moon, with Neil Armstrong uttering those immortal words: ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’.
Eleven more Americans followed, including Buzz Aldrin, Alan Shepard and Eugene Cernan, but all of them were men.
Now, NASA is planning to land the first woman on the moon in a little over three years’ time and has whittled down the list to just nine candidates.
Russia is now in charge of the International Space Station after NASA handed over responsibility earlier today.
US astronaut Tom Marshburn had been the commander of the orbiting outpost for just over a month, but ahead of his return to Earth he transferred control to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.
The 51-year-old becomes the 67th commander of the space station and the 31st Russian to assume the role.
Four astronauts, including Marsburn, are heading home following a six-month stay on the
If humans are to live on the moon and one day make it to Mars then scientists must come up a way for them to grow their own food.
To that end, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) could soon be tucking into a tasty meal of fresh steak — but only if they can perfect the technology of cultivating it from beef cells in microgravity first.
That is just one of the scientific experiments being carried out by
A novel sleeping bag could be key to stopping astronauts developing optical health complications in space, including swelling of the optical nerve and vision loss.
The sack, built at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, works by using vacuum tech to pull down body fluids that would otherwise pool in the head.
A similar increase in brain pressure occurs when you lie down at night, although on Earth, getting up in the morning fixes this by allowing gravity to
