Tag: Astronaut
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From France to the moon: rocket simulator opens in Toulouse
[ad_1] The Cité de l’Espace centre is offering visitors the experience of space travel in a rocket and moon lander simulator. ADVERTISEMENT In Toulouse, France, the Cité de l’Espace is launching a new immersive experience: Lune Xplorer, where you can take a seat in a rocket simulator. You can climb aboard a spaceship similar to…
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NASA switches SpaceX’s Crew-8 launch date again | Digital Trends
[ad_1] Just a couple of days after NASA announced it was delaying the launch of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) by a week, the agency has come back to say it’s pushing back the earliest possible launch date by another two days. It means that the Crew-8 mission will now launch…
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Christina Koch: ‘I come to work to do cool things like go to the moon’
[ad_1] CHRISTINA KOCH has the kind of job children dream of. Beginning in 2019, on her first mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut lived in space for 328 days – the longest time any woman has spent there. During that mission, she 3D printed biological tissues, grew proteins, worked on a…
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Meet Christina Koch, who will be the first woman to go to the moon
[ad_1] CHRISTINA KOCH has the kind of job children dream of. Beginning in 2019, on her first mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA astronaut lived in space for 328 days – the longest time any woman has spent there. During that mission, she 3D printed biological tissues, grew proteins, worked on a…
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25 amazing ISS photos to mark 25 years of the space station | Digital Trends
[ad_1] An impressive feat of modern engineering and a notable example of what can be achieved by cross-border cooperation, the International Space Station (ISS) marks its 25th year of operations this week. At the top of this page you can enjoy a gallery of 25 stunning images of the ISS, most of them captured from…