Tagged With Astronaut

How NASA tests spacesuits

Michelle Yan, Abby Tang, Dave Mosher

NASA just picked a winner in its space-toilet competition. The $20,000 prize awards the best 'lunar loo' for moon-bound astronauts.

Susie Neilson, Hilary Brueck

I'm one of 4 astronauts in history to have piloted a space shuttle. Here's what my time in space taught me about making even the most boring tasks extraordinary.

Terry Virts

SpaceX showed it can safely ferry astronauts to and from space. In September, it will launch 4 more — here's who's next.

Susie Neilson

The first American woman to walk in space, Kathy Sullivan, just became the first woman to reach the deepest point in all of the oceans

Aylin Woodward

Astronaut Scott Kelly reveals the lessons he learned spending nearly a year in space that can help the rest of us cope with pandemic life

Sara Silverstein

An Italian astronaut snapped an incredible interstellar selfie while floating in space

Sahar Esfandiari

NASA astronaut rates space movies based on how realistic they are

Brett Jordan, Meredith Geaghan-Breiner

What happens to an astronaut's body in space

Amber Bragdon

China found a mysterious 'gel-like' substance on the moon's uncharted far side

Rosie Perper

The story of the first ever space wedding, when a woman on Earth married a cardboard cutout of her astronaut boyfriend while he watched on from the International Space Station

Sinéad Baker

Read the 40-word letter astronaut Sally Ride wrote to NASA that led to her becoming the 1st American woman in space

Sinéad Baker

NASA's 4-year twin experiment gets us closer to Mars than ever before

Nathaniel Lee, Benji Jones

Why NASA spacesuits are white

Shira Polan, Clancy Morgan

NASA canceled the first all-female spacewalk in history because it didn't have enough spacesuits in the right size — and people are baffled

Susanna Heller

An astronaut accidentally called 911 from space

Kelly McLaughlin

Over half a million chunks of space trash could jeopardise space travel — but Europe has a plan to save it

Nathaniel Lee

What it takes to become an astronaut

Nathaniel Lee, Jessica Orwig

Meet the 'Everyday Astronaut' -- a photographer with a spacesuit and a knack for the surreal

Kim Renfro

What it's really like to be a NASA astronaut

Natalie Walters, Jacquelyn Smith