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This weekend, the Opry presented a live performance and guest appearances from NASA astronauts, including Tennessee native Barry "Butch" Wilmore and his crew of five at the International Space ...
In the meantime, the astronauts have spent their extended stay working alongside the crew of Expedition 71, performing scientific research and helping to do mainteance on the space station, NASA said.
Three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday after a nearly eight-month stay in space, splashing down off Florida's coast.
This is known as the "Fitness for Duty Standards". Space crews' current nominal number of work hours is 6.5 hours per day, and weekly work time should not exceed 48 hours. NASA defines critical workload overload for a space flight crew as 10-hour work days for 3 days per work week, or more than 60 hours per week (NASA STD-3001, Vol. 1 [11]).
NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore, wearing Boeing spacesuits, depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 5, 2024.
All activities were broadcast live by the national television and radio networks. [citation needed] A similar memorial service was held at the Johnson Space Center on February 4, 2003, for the astronauts who perished in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster three days before, which was attended by President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura ...
Boeing’s Starliner launched its first crewed mission to space on Wednesday morning, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board. The Starliner capsule took off from the Cape ...
U.S. Space Shuttle missions were capable of carrying more humans and cargo than the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, resulting in more U.S. short-term human visits until the Space Shuttle program was discontinued in 2011. Between 2011 and 2020, Soyuz was the sole means of human transport to the ISS, delivering mostly long-term crew.