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Space selfies with smartphones? Imagine the shots they could get with a smartphone in hand. NASA has reportedly announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry their own smartphones. This is a bit of a departure from the usual strict rules about what gadgets can fly in…
AI image (Picture credit: OpenAI via ChatGPT) Four Artemis-II astronauts will return for a 10-day deep-space mission that’ll test new spacecraft, new partnerships and a new approach to lunar exploration“As I take man’s last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future…
Video footage released by Nasa on Wednesday showed four astronauts undocking from the International Space Station, marking the agency’s first-ever medical evacuation from orbit. The crew, two Americans, a Russian cosmonaut, and a Japanese astronaut, departed aboard a SpaceX capsule after one of the astronauts required doctors’ care, prompting an early return that cuts short…
This screengrab from video provided by NASA TV shows the SpaceX Dragon departing from the ISS Nasa began its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, bringing back an astronaut in need of medical care along with three crewmates. The four astronauts, from the US, Russia, and Japan, are scheduled to…
Crew 11 (Image credit Nasa) Nasa astronauts aboard the International Space Station will return “no earlier than 5 pm ET on January 14,” after a medical issue led the crew to end their mission ahead of schedule, Nasa said in a statement, adding that the crew member was ‘stable’.In a post on X, the American…
Space looks dark and cold from Earth, but sunlight beyond our atmosphere is harsh in ways most of us never experience. Without air, clouds, or an ozone layer to soften it, solar radiation hits with full force. That raises a simple, almost playful question that hides a serious concern: do astronauts need sunscreen in space?…
Screengrab (Picture source: X/CNSA) In a first for China’s manned space programme, astronauts on the Shenzhou-20 and Shenzhou-21 missions have used a specially developed oven to barbecue chicken wings and cook steak aboard the China Space Station. The new “space oven,” installed recently, allows smokeless cooking and is part of broader efforts to improve living…
A groundbreaking study has revealed that solar flares can reach astonishing temperatures of 108 million degrees Fahrenheit (60 million°C), nearly six times hotter than earlier estimates. This discovery dramatically changes how scientists understand the Sun’s most powerful eruptions and highlights the urgent need to refine space weather forecasting models. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters,…
