Tag: Astronaut

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after spending nine months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The mission...

Long-term space missions pose serious health risks. A new study from McGill University uncovers how space travel alters gut bacteria and metabolism....

Frank Rubio, currently on a year-long mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), has achieved a remarkable milestone in space exploration. Today,...

China on May 30 achieved a historic milestone in its space program by sending its first civilian astronaut to space. Gui Haichao, a professor at the Beihang University in Beijing regarded as a payload specialist, joined two military astronauts on the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft that blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwestern China at 9:31 a.m. local time.

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev,...

Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who is best remembered for flying the Apollo 7 mission in October 1968 and second American civilian to...

Tardigrades or water bears as called are chubby eight legged microscopic organisms have superpowers when it comes to surviving very harsh conditions. The survival...

The world has seen the four astronauts shooting up to reach the International Space Station in the first SpaceX operational trip. Of the four,...

Human brain grows in space flights. This is what scientists have now researched and published in Radiology journal. Long term space flights will actually...

When the world celebrates Women's day on March 8, India Flash looks at some of the women who made it into the space. Sixty...