Eleven years after the launch of the first H-II Transfer cargo vehicle (HTV) to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) HTV-9 will depart the orbital laboratory Tuesday, Aug. 18. This will be the final station departure of JAXA’s Kounotori, or “white stork, […]
We all have to do our housekeeping chores, even when we command the crew aboard the International Space Station. This past weekend, NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy was no exception as he collected trash for disposal during weekend housekeeping activities. Image Credit: NASA
This long-exposure photograph captures a starry sky above the Earth’s atmospheric glow as the International Space Station orbited above the Indian Ocean about halfway between South Africa and Australia. Image Credit: NASA 当国际空间站在南非和澳大利亚之间的印度洋上空绕轨道运行时，她的长曝光照片捕捉到了地球大气辉光上方繁星点点的星空。 影像来源：NASA
Credit：NASA 北京时间8月3日凌晨2时48分（美国东部时间8月2日14时48分），NASA宇航员Robert Behnken 和 Douglas Hurley乘坐奋进号载人龙飞船，溅落在佛罗里达彭萨科拉（Pensacola）海岸。 载人龙飞船的舱门在3时59分（71分钟后）打开，Behnken和Hurley离开飞船，登上Go Navigator号船进行了初步的医疗检查，随后乘坐直升机返回岸上，抵达岸上后，两名NASA宇航员立即坐上早已等待的飞机，飞往休斯顿。 Credit：NASA Behnken和Hurley于今年5月31日抵达空间站，他俩在空间站呆了62天，环绕地球近1024圈，
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft as it is lifted onto the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The Demo-2 test flight for NASA&#
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken, left, and Douglas Hurley are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. The Demo-2 test flight for N
Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program are aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon as it approaches the International Space Station on May 31, 2020. The Crew Dragon’s nose cone is open revealing the spacecraft’s docking mechanism that would connect to the Ha
NASA is developing technologies to send humans to the Red Planet. The agency is working on an inflatable heat shield that allows the large surface area to take up less space in a rocket than a rigid one. The technology could land spacecraft on any planet with an atmosphere. It would expand and infla
The crew snapped this starry nighttime shot of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding cities on the Brazilian coast, as the International Space Station orbited above São Paolo. Whhile the crew observes Earth from more than 200 miles above the planet, astronaut Bob Behnken and Commander Chris Cassidy also ar
Technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently finished meticulously applying more than 180 blocks of ablative material to the heat shield for the Orion spacecraft set to carry astronauts around the Moon on Artemis II. The heat shield is one of the most critical elements of Orion and
