During the eight-hour operation, mission commander Senior Colonel Chen Dong and crew member Colonel Chen Zhongrui floated out ...

A pair of taikonauts have completed their first spacewalk aboard China's Tiangong space station, according to the China ...

The Shenzhou XX crew is conducting China's 15th manned spaceflight and has become the ninth group of residents aboard the ...

The first spacewalk was conducted in 1965, by Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Nearly 20 years later, cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space during a solo outing in 1984 ...

Spacesuits are essentially one-person spacecraft that protect their wearers from the hazards of space, including radiation ...

NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers emerged around 9 a.m. Thursday, May 1 for the fifth-ever all-female spacewalk.

It’s often called the astronaut’s “personal spacecraft.” None of the early spacewalks went flawlessly, and, she says, “most spacewalks have little hiccups.” Still, 60 years after the ...

Both he and Gillis' spacewalks went without a hitch, but they were not without their risks. Unlike other modern spacecraft, the Crew Dragon lacks an airlock, so the entire capsule needed to be ...

Polaris Dawn seems even more hair-raising when you consider that the Dragon wasn’t designed for spacewalks. Yes, it has ferried plenty of astronauts to and from the International Space Station ...

Both im and Gillis spacewalks dey smooth, but e no dey not without dia risks. Unlike oda modern spacecraft, di Crew Dragon no get airlock, so dem gatz depressurise di entire capsule bifor di two ...

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