YouTube is celebrating 50 years of human spaceflight with the premiere of an hour-and-a-half long video, First Orbit, that recreates, in real-time, Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin's first 108-minute long orbit of Earth in 1961.
CEO's website, the Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (eol.jsc.nasa.gov), provides free public access to view, search, and download over three million images taken by astronauts throughout all of NASA's crewed spaceflight history, with an emphasis on current ISS imagery.
Those who wish to travel into space argue that the government should now be doing a similar thing for spaceflight, with its aerospace agency, NASA, playing the role of the post office.
We developed and tested a novel exercise countermeasure device (CCD) for use in spaceflight with the aim of preserving musculoskeletal and cardiovascular health along with an incorporated balance training component.
Comparison of a K. pneumoniae strain obtained after spaceflight with the ground-control strain revealed genome variations and phenotypic changes and elucidated the genomic basis of the acquired drug resistance.
MirCorp raised more than $40 million for missions to Mir, sponsoring two cargo ship flights carrying supplies and the first privately financed manned spaceflight with two Russian astronauts traveling to the station in April for a 73-day refurbishing mission.
"Human spaceflight with adequate risk cannot be inexpensive," he says.
Russia continues hold the record for long-duration spaceflight with the world record of 438 days.
They could even revolutionize spaceflight with their ability to withstand tension and extreme temperatures.
