Nasa astronauts

Astronaut, a vocationMan’s first steps on the Moon in 1969 and soon on the planet Mars, stays longer and longer in space… Manned space missions are the ultimate adventures of humanity, always in search of pushing back boundaries of its knowledge and of its borders. Astronauts are the heroes of these adventures and ambassadors of… Read more

NASA astronaut Sunita "Suni" Williams has flown on multiple spaceships and spent months in orbit. She's now part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

jsc2018e095073 (Dec. 3, 2018) --- Official portrait of NASA astronaut Christina Koch.

Sunita (Suni) L. Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. She is

ISS036-E-016535 (9 July 2013) --- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, Expedition 36 flight engineer, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues on the International Space Station. During the six-hour, seven-minute spacewalk, Cassidy and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano (out of frame), flight engineer, prepared the space station for a new Russian module and performed additional installations on the station's backbone.

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Expedition 36 flight engineer, equipped with a bungee harness, exercises on the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) in the Tranquility node of the International Space Station. Its use is one of the ways astronauts and cosmonauts maintain muscle mass and bone density in a zero-gravity environment.

Buzz Aldrin is an American U.S. Air Force pilot and astronaut who took part in the historic Apollo 11 mission, during which he became the second person to step onto the lunar surface. Prior to Apollo 11, Aldrin was prime crew of NASA’s Gemini 12 mission.

size: 24x18in Photo: Crew of the Ill-Fated Space Shuttle Columbia :

A variety of makeshift solutions have been sent into space, including bags, roll on cuffs, diapers, strappy toilet seats, and $19 million commodes.

NASA and SpaceX will launch astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley into space on board a Falcon 9 rocket, on a 400 kilometre journey to the International Space Station