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Kathryn Sullivan

NASA astronaut Kathryn Sullivan on zero G dreams and fixing Hubble

15 January 2020

The first US woman to spacewalk flew on three shuttle missions and says nothing beats space flight – but her proudest achievement is helping to repair the Hubble Space Telescope


Astronaut working on the outsdie of the International Space Station

Low gravity in space made some astronauts’ blood flow backwards

15 November 2019

Spending time in microgravity can reverse the flow of a person’s blood and lead to clots, as seen in astronauts who spent months on the International Space Station


A picture of the Soyuz spacecraft approaching the ISS

Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of Soyuz 61 from the ISS

26 September 2019

Astronaut Christina Koch snapped this majestic picture of a Soyuz rocket approaching the ISS yesterday, tweeting that her best friend Jessica Meir was inside


women on the ISS

After years of sexism in space we urgently need more female astronauts

24 July 2019

Getting more women into space is essential if we're ever to run longer missions or even set up colonies off-planet. To do so we need a better understanding of how human bodies will cope in outer space


Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

Future moon missions probably won't carry astronauts - here's why

8 July 2019

Unlike the Apollo missions, the new era of moon exploration might be about mining, tourism or art. The reason we pick to return will define the moon's future


Astronauts in mock cockpit

Apollo 11 space mission: Diabolically hard practice got us to the moon

8 July 2019

Before anyone had been to space, NASA simulated everything that could go possibly wrong – efforts that averted catastrophe as the Apollo 11 crew were about to land


Twins Scott and Mark Kelly

What happened when one twin went to space and the other stayed home?

11 April 2019

Astronaut twin brothers Scott and Mark Kelly took part in a unique space travel experiment and it turns out that space changes your urine but not your faeces


At last, US dream of resuming human space launches are within reach

6 March 2019

For nearly a decade the US has relied on Russia to get its astronauts into space. With the test of SpaceX's crew capsule, it looks set to bring launches home again soon


Sean Penn and LisaGay Hamilton

Review of The First: A gripping and gritty tale of Mars exploration

31 October 2018

Creating The First, a gritty new TV space epic about the complexities of getting a crew to Mars, was an enormously detailed – and soul-searching – job


astronaut

Row with Russia and SpaceX delays could leave NASA unable to reach ISS

3 October 2018

Talk of sabotage on the International Space Station has exposed cracks in the US-Russia space relationship that could see NASA unable to fly astronauts into orbit


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