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PHOTO DATE: 10-14-22 LOCATION: Black Point Lava Flow, Arizona SUBJECT: Photographic documentation of Crew-1 re familiarization in support for Desert Rats 2022 in Flagstaff, Arizona. PHOTOGRAPHER: BILL STAFFORD

See the astronauts learning how to walk on the moon... in Arizona

30 November 2022

These photographs are of JETT3 and D-RATS, two Earth-based missions designed to replicate aspects of future moon landings and help NASA engineers enable astronauts to do science on the lunar surface


FEATURED IMAGE NASA/Andy Saunders (Digital Source: Stephen Slater)

Remastered Apollo mission photos are simply out of this world

7 September 2022

Half a century after the last person walked on the moon, original footage has been digitally overhauled to show NASA's lunar missions in a new light


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Crewed lunar mission must launch by 2025 to avoid deadly solar storms

20 May 2021

Space weather conditions are set to take a turn for the worse midway through the 2020s, which might pose problems for a planned crewed mission to the moon


Inside the ISS: Astronauts tell their amazing tales of living in space

Inside the ISS: Astronauts tell their amazing tales of living in space

2 September 2020

Real-life accounts of International Space Station crew members Samantha Cristoforetti and Terry Virts capture the extraordinarily ordinary life of an astronaut


Wally Funk and Mercury 13

Wally Funk and the future of female astronauts

14 May 2020

Between 1960 and 1961, thirteen American women - all pilots - qualified as astronauts. The Mercury 13 passed the same physical tests as America’s first male astronauts, yet they never made it beyond Earth's atmosphere. Wally Funk was one of them.


Long space flights can increase the volume of astronauts’ brains

Long space flights can increase the volume of astronauts’ brains

14 April 2020

Spending at least six months in microgravity can cause astronauts’ brain volumes to increase, causing pressure to build up in their heads and creating vision problems


Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

2 December 2019

Comets and asteroids are among the solar system’s oldest inhabitants. For Natalie Starkey, that makes them invaluable time capsules


Astronaut wee could show us how the plumes on Enceladus work

17 October 2017

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand-in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn’s icy moons


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