Tag: astronauts

Space Station Live commentator Rob Navias talks with Dr. Andre Schiele, head of the European Space Agency’s telerobotics lab at ESTEC, about the Haptics-1 experiment that arrived at the International …

Did you know: Why do astronauts need good teeth?

On Dec. 11 aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, bid farewell to crew members remaining …

MIT researchers put sensors in boots that can tell astronauts when they’re near obstacles. The wearer is warned with increasingly frequent vibrations. This information is also displayed using an augmented …

NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer, who returned to Earth on Sept. 2 after spending months aboard the International Space Station, discussed their mission during a news conference on …

Astronauts Bob Behnken and Sunita “Suni” WIlliams talked about what they hoped to see from the 2015 of Back to the Future and what worked out to be true.

The environment of the International Space Station isn’t exactly hospitable to the human body. In this episode of Space Craft, Loren Grush tries out some of the specialized machines astronauts …