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China’s spacesuit prove their durability in Tiangong’s extravehicular missions
China’s first batch of extravehicular spacesuits, dubbed the Feitian, have proven their exceptional durability ...
Modern spacesuits have a compatibility problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it
Making spacesuits compatible with different spacecraft could protect astronauts during an emergency evacuation.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on MSN1d
How NASA’s Perseverance Is Helping Prepare Astronauts for Mars
The rover carries several swatches of spacesuit materials, and scientists are assessing how they’ve held up after four years ...
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New Barbie doll celebrates 60 years as an astronaut, but forgets when humans first flew into space
Earth to astronaut Barbie, we have a new space collectible ... but probably not for all of the reasons Mattel intended.
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The strange historical saga of an astronaut’s forbidden sandwich
“I hid a sandwich in my spacesuit,” he confessed. Now, NASA historian Jennifer Ross-Nazzal has shared her research on this strange and dramatic tail of cosmic contraband. Astronauts are not ...
Space.com on MSN6d
Apollo 10, Soyuz capsule among artifacts moving to new space gallery in London
The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...
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A NASA Astronaut Flew Untethered To Capture A Satellite And The Footage Is Tense To Say The Least
While terrifying, there's an overlooked NASA spacewalk which looks equally terrifying to untrained Earth-dwellers. In 1984, ...
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NASA astronauts return after 9 months: What happens to the human body in space?
Astronauts’ skeletons can also be affected without Earth’s gravity. Bones can start to demineralize and lose their strength, ...
How Do Astronauts Breathe in Space?
Engineers have had to come up with some interesting ways to generate oxygen in the vacuum of space.